A Melbourne man who used artificial intelligence to generate hundreds of child abuse images has been jailed for 13 months.
The 48-year-old was sentenced on July 25 after pleading guilty to two offences, the Australian Federal Police revealed last night.
Investigators seized a computer tower and "disk station" and found he'd used an AI image generator to make 793 realistic child abuse images based on text inputs. Victoria Police Detective Superintendent Tim McKinney said investigators had seen an increase in the use of AI to make child abuse material.
"Anything that depicts the abuse of children – whether that's videos, images, drawings or stories – is child abuse material," Geason said.Popular cloud-based AI text-to-image generators have fairly strict blocks on terms related to child abuse material and other restricted terms but locally run alternatives exist.
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