- A UK man has received a 24 year sentence for using AI to create child sexual abuse material.
- The man reportedly used images of real children to create his depraved content.
- He also encouraged people to commit offences against children.
“Depraved” is how the Greater Manchester Police described Hugh Nelson on the back of his sentencing after being found guilty of a total of 16 child sexual offences (CSAM). As you’ll learn, this is an apt description.
As reported by the police, Nelson plead guilty to the charges in August after already copping to five charges in July 2023. In August he plead guilty to three counts of encouraging the rape of a child under 13, one count of attempting to incite a boy under 16 to engage in a sexual act, three counts each of the distribution and making of indecent images, and one count of possessing prohibited images.
The images in question were generated using generative artificial …