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Quebec man who created synthetic, AI-generated child pornography sentenced to prison
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ai-child-abuse-images-1.6823808Quebec man who created synthetic, AI-generated child pornography sentenced to prison
Judge calls use of deepfake technology to create images 'chilling'
Jacob Serebrin · The Canadian Press · Posted: Apr 26, 2023 8:40 PM EDT | Last Updated: April 26
WARNING: This article contains details of abuse.
A Quebec man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for using artificial intelligence to produce synthetic videos of child pornography.
Steven Larouche, 61, of Sherbrooke, Que., pleaded guilty to creating at least seven videos with so-called deepfake technology, which is used to superimpose the face of an individual onto the body of another person.
He also pleaded guilty to possessing hundreds of thousands of computer files of child pornography, for which he was sentenced an additional four and a half years.
Provincial court judge Benoit Gagnon wrote in his ruling, issued earlier this month, that he believes this was the first case in the country involving deepfakes of child sexual exploitation.
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Judge calls use of deepfake technology to create images 'chilling'
Jacob Serebrin · The Canadian Press · Posted: Apr 26, 2023 8:40 PM EDT | Last Updated: April 26
WARNING: This article contains details of abuse.
A Quebec man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for using artificial intelligence to produce synthetic videos of child pornography.
Steven Larouche, 61, of Sherbrooke, Que., pleaded guilty to creating at least seven videos with so-called deepfake technology, which is used to superimpose the face of an individual onto the body of another person.
He also pleaded guilty to possessing hundreds of thousands of computer files of child pornography, for which he was sentenced an additional four and a half years.
Provincial court judge Benoit Gagnon wrote in his ruling, issued earlier this month, that he believes this was the first case in the country involving deepfakes of child sexual exploitation.
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