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Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Soldier Faces Allegations of Using AI to Generate Child Pornography

August 23, 2024

Seth Herrera, a U.S. Army soldier at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER), is accused of using artificial intelligence to generate pornography depicting minors with whom he was in contact.
Alleged deployer
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Alleged developer
seth-herrera
Alleged harmed parties
children

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/780

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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