\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRussell Bloodworth, a Bentonville photographer and camp instructor, pleaded not guilty to 200 charges on Monday morning.He was arrested in June after police received a cyber tip related to child sexual abuse material being generated by someone using GROK AI.Bloodworth appeared before a judge at the Benton County Courthouse Monday Morning.According to court documents filed on Friday, Bloodworth is facing 100 counts of pandering or possessing visual or print medium depicting sexually explicit conduct involving a child, 100 counts of unlawful creation or distribution of deepfake visual material, and one count of engaging children in sexually explicit conduct for use in visual or print medium.The 100 counts of unlawful creation or distribution of deepfake visual material were filed under Act 827, an Arkansas law that took effect in 2025. The law makes it a crime to knowingly create or distribute sexually explicit AI-generated images of an identifiable person without that person’s consent. It was passed to address the growing use of artificial intelligence to create sexually explicit deepfake images.Representative Ryan Rose, who co-sponsored the legislation, told 40\/29 News the Bloodworth case is exactly the type of case lawmakers envisioned when drafting the law.”Instances like the Bloodworth case are exactly why this legislation was necessary. We know that the sickest predators in our society will try to do everything they can to skirt the law. To simply take the picture of a child and manipulate it into sexually explicit images\u2014that’s the exact gray area we’ve now eliminated,” said Rose.Bloodworth was released from jail on June 13. District Judge A.J. Anglin placed certain conditions including that he cannot have any contact with children except his biological children and must wear an ankle monitor.According to the probable cause report, a Bentonville Police detective found a hidden folder on Bloodworth’s cellphone containing more than 1,700 images and videos, most of which showed juvenile females in various sexual poses, multiple videos showing the performance of sex acts.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Russell Bloodworth, a Bentonville photographer and camp instructor, pleaded not guilty to 200 charges on Monday morning.<\/p>\n
He was arrested in June after police received a cyber tip related to child sexual abuse material being generated by someone using GROK AI.<\/p>\n
Bloodworth appeared before a judge at the Benton County Courthouse Monday Morning.<\/p>\n
According to court documents filed on Friday, Bloodworth is facing 100 counts of pandering or possessing visual or print medium depicting sexually explicit conduct involving a child, 100 counts of unlawful creation or distribution of deepfake visual material, and one count of engaging children in sexually explicit conduct for use in visual or print medium.<\/p>\n
The 100 counts of unlawful creation or distribution of deepfake visual material were filed under Act 827, an Arkansas law that took effect in 2025. The law makes it a crime to knowingly create or distribute sexually explicit AI-generated images of an identifiable person without that person’s consent. It was passed to address the growing use of artificial intelligence to create sexually explicit deepfake images.<\/p>\n
Representative Ryan Rose, who co-sponsored the legislation, told 40\/29 News the Bloodworth case is exactly the type of case lawmakers envisioned when drafting the law.<\/p>\n
“Instances like the Bloodworth case are exactly why this legislation was necessary. We know that the sickest predators in our society will try to do everything they can to skirt the law. To simply take the picture of a child and manipulate it into sexually explicit images\u2014that’s the exact gray area we’ve now eliminated,” said Rose.<\/p>\n
Bloodworth was released from jail on June 13. District Judge A.J. Anglin placed certain conditions including that he cannot have any contact with children except his biological children and must wear an ankle monitor.<\/p>\n
According to the probable cause report, a Bentonville Police detective found a hidden folder on Bloodworth’s cellphone containing more than 1,700 images and videos, most of which showed juvenile females in various sexual poses, multiple videos showing the performance of sex acts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russell Bloodworth, a Bentonville photographer and camp instructor, pleaded not guilty to 200 charges on Monday morning.He was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[24,58450,8827,40300,40299,21550,58446,2876,52535,5340,32985,52537,58452,762,58453,58448,6364,58454,37447,58449,58447,58451,2454,2899],"class_list":["post-114381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-xai","tag-ai","tag-ai-csam-charge","tag-arrest","tag-bentonville","tag-bentonville-photographer","tag-cellphone","tag-charges","tag-child","tag-count","tag-court","tag-csam","tag-cyber-tip","tag-deepfake-visual-material","tag-distribution","tag-district-judge-a-j-anglin","tag-explicit-conduct","tag-grok","tag-hidden-folder","tag-june","tag-print-medium","tag-russell-bloodworth","tag-unlawful-creation","tag-video","tag-xai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}