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NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Federal prosecutors have charged two men with using artificial intelligence to create nude videos and photos of female celebrities under a newly enacted law<\/a> meant to halt the spread of deepfake pornography. <\/p>\n

Cornelius Shannon, 51, and Arturo Hernandez, 20, were both arrested Tuesday for generating sexually explicit AI content that drew millions of views online, according to criminal complaints. <\/p>\n

The men \u2014 who do not appear to be connected \u2014 are among the earliest defendants to face charges under the Take It Down Act, a law signed last year by President Donald Trump that adds stricter penalties for publishing AI-created deepfakes and \u201crevenge porn.\u201d The bill drew bipartisan support, as well as the public backing of first lady Melania Trump. <\/a><\/p>\n

Under the new law, the men now face up to two years in prison. <\/p>\n

Attorneys for Shannon and Hernandez did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n

In a statement, Joseph Nocella, the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, said the men had \u201dused cutting-edge digital technology to create images that degraded and violated\u201d dozens of women. \u201cThis case makes clear that posting deepfake pornography is not a victimless crime,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

Shannon, a resident of New Jersey, published at least 240 albums of AI-generated pornography featuring female politicians, musicians and singers, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n

The deepfakes published by Hernandez, of Texas, included both celebrities as well as private women, including recent high school graduates, prosecutors said. <\/p>\n

The arrests come as increasingly sophisticated generative AI tools have raised alarm<\/a> about the online spread of sexually explicit fakes, often depicting minors.<\/p>\n

Last month, an Ohio man became the first person convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to using AI to generate child sexual abuse material. <\/p>\n

In March, two teenage boys received probation<\/a> for creating explicit AI images of their classmates at an exclusive private school in Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n

And in a separate case filed earlier this year, three teenagers in Tennessee sued Elon Musk\u2019s xAI,<\/a> claiming the company\u2019s Grok tools morphed their real photos into explicitly sexual images<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The high school students are seeking class-action status to represent what the lawsuit says are thousands of people who were similarly victimized as minors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Federal prosecutors have charged two men with using artificial intelligence to create nude videos…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":813726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[738,330466,64,330467,69,66,51344,57,330468,13754,401,405,403,1574,1573,5217,2830,18883,158,1229,358,6066,5028,61,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-813725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-arturo-hernandez","tag-business","tag-cornelius-shannon","tag-donald-trump","tag-elon-musk","tag-general-domestic-news","tag-general-news","tag-joseph-nocella","tag-melania-trump","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-oh-state-wire","tag-ohio","tag-pa-state-wire","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pornography","tag-technology","tag-tennessee","tag-texas","tag-tn-state-wire","tag-tx-state-wire","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116616222737431702","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}