Hugh Nelson, 27, from Bolton, jailed after transforming normal pictures of children into sexual abuse imagery

A man who used AI to create child abuse images using photographs of real children has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.

In the first prosecution of its kind in the UK, Hugh Nelson, 27, from Bolton, was convicted of 16 child sexual abuse offences in August, after an investigation by Greater Manchester police (GMP).

Nelson had used Daz 3D, a computer programme with an AI function, to transform “normal” images of children into sexual abuse imagery, Greater Manchester police said. In some cases, paedophiles had commissioned the images, supplying photographs of children with whom they had contact in real life.

He was also found guilty of encouraging other offenders to commit rape.

  • @Mango
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    12 months ago

    So your point is that because he’s fast with this tool, it’s bad? Guess we gotta institute fake CP data rate limits.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      A tool that allows anyone to generate countless images of CSAM in minutes (based on real images as input) is definitely worse than someone needing to spend years honing an art and using hours to produce one image of CSAM. I’m not really sure how someone could argue against that.

      • @Mango
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        12 months ago

        Why? It’s pictures. Sticks and stones yo.

          • @Mango
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            12 months ago

            I’m an antinatalist. I think the shit kids gotta go through regularly is worse than all that.