A 27-year-old British man, Hugh Nelson, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to several sexual offenses, including making and distributing indecent images of children. The court in Bolton Crown Court, near Manchester, heard that Nelson used artificial intelligence technology to create explicit images of children being harmed both sexually and physically.
Nelson took commissions from individuals in online chatrooms for custom explicit images and used AI software from a U.S. company, Daz 3D, to generate these images. The company's software, Daz Studio 3D rendering software, has an “AI function” that Nelson misused to create and distribute these harmful images.
