Crime & Safety
How Is AI Being Used To Create Disturbing Images Of Children? A Philadelphia Professor Explains.
"The type of people who use this software to create nude images are often fixated on specific people," District Attorney Holihan said.
October 17, 2025
There's a reason to think twice before you post a picture of your child online now that artificial intelligence, or AI, is making it all too easy to transform that photo into something very disturbing.
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Recently, a Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty to having AI-generated child sex abuse material. It's one of the state's first convictions for a crime like this, and the Lehigh County District Attorney says a Bethlehem man altered pictures he saw on social media using AI to make two girls appear without any clothes on. In this case, the man knew the children.
"It's just overwhelming to know that completely innocent pictures of your own children can be abused and manipulated in such a way, especially by somebody that you knew and somebody that you trusted," Gavin Holihan, the Lehigh County district attorney, said.
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