Both men were charged in federal court in Brooklyn on Wednesday.
“This predatory conduct represents a disturbing abuse of technology that inflicts emotional harm on victims, violating their privacy, dignity, and security,” FBI Assistant Director in Charge James C. Barnacle Jr. said in a statement. “The use of this emerging technology to victimize individuals is not innovative—it is criminal and will be pursued with the full force of the law.”
Have there been previous cases under the law?
Last month, 37-year-old James Strahler II became the first person to be convicted under the newly-enacted law. Strahler, from Ohio, pleaded guilty to using A.I. to create non-consensual sexually explicit images and videos of both adults and minors.
Strahler had posted more than 700 A.I.-generated pornographic images of both real and animated people to a website dedicated to child sexual abuse, and he had used A.I. software to create sexually explicit images of minor boys from his community and several adult women, according to the Department of Justice. He is awaiting sentencing.
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