Hugh Nelson, 27, from Bolton, jailed after transforming normal pictures of children into sexual abuse imagery

Hugh Nelson, 27, from Bolton, jailed after transforming normal pictures of children into sexual abuse imagery

A man who used AI to create child abuse images using photographs of real children has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.

In the first prosecution of its kind in the UK, Hugh Nelson, 27, from Bolton, was convicted of 16 child sexual abuse offences in August, after an investigation by Greater Manchester police (GMP).

Nelson had used Daz 3D, a computer programme with an AI function, to transform “normal” images of children into sexual abuse imagery, Greater Manchester police said. In some cases, paedophiles had commissioned the images, supplying photographs of children with whom they had contact in real life.

He was also found guilty of encouraging other offenders to commit rape.

  • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    31·
    6 days ago

    THEY AREN’T KEEPING IT TO THEMSELVES.

    Holy shit, how are you defending this behavior still?

    They find children they want, take pictures of them, send them to this “CSAM AI Artist” for lack of a better term, in order to have CSAM of the specific child they are interested in.

    If you dont see that as dangerous, especially as the CSAM creator is encouraging these people to act on those specific children, well… Let me know so I can just block you and be done.

    What the actual fuck.

    • Mango@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      6 days ago

      Ohh, you’re on about the specific guy in the article who went down primarily because of the other shit he’s doing along with what you just said. If you scroll up enough, you’ll see that I’m talking about hypotheticals. My whole stance is about personal data being ethically in the same category as personal thoughts. Nobody should be convicted for wrongthink regardless of whether it’s bad taste or not. There’s no important difference between pictures in your head and pictures you put on a screen.

      • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        21·
        6 days ago

        Well, thanks for the confirmation that I should just block you, because the situation literally is about this guy and the people who targeted children, and you’re just giving the old thumbs up because its “just thoughts about raping kids, real kids that they followed and took pictures of - but its cool! There is no way this leads to escalation and the rape of kids”.

        Got it…

        • Mango@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          You’re the kind of loser who would convict someone over your feelings and call yourself the good guy.