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First US federal charge for creating AI-generated child sexual abuse material with Stable Diffusion

The Justice Department's first prosecution over fully AI-generated child abuse imagery targeted a Wisconsin man who made thousands of images with Stable Diffusion and messaged a 15-year-old.

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