AI incident #1619 ·
Bentonville, Arkansas, Photographer Allegedly Used Grok to Create AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material from Clients' Photos
What happened
Bentonville, Arkansas, photographer Russell Bloodworth III allegedly used photographs of a 10-year-old client and other minors as reference images in Grok to generate and disseminate AI-generated child sexual abuse material. Police arrested him on June 10 and reportedly found about 1,700 child sexual abuse images and videos on his phone. The child's family later sued xAI and X Corp.
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News reports (4)
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Who was involved
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- Synthetic Media Creators, Russell Bloodworth Iii, Grok Users, Deepfake Creators, Chatbot Users, Ai Generated Csam Creators
- Alleged harmed party
- Victims Of Deepfake Child Abuse, Victims Of Deepfake Abuse, Victims Of Csam, Minors Depicted In Synthetic Sexual Content, Minors, Epistemic Integrity, Children Depicted In Synthetic Sexual Content
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