Two Men Arrested for Creating AI Deepfake Porn

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Incident details

Incident ID: inc_2026_05_25_bb2e4446
Date source: llm_extracted_from_article_text
Country: United States
Platform: Unknown
Incident type: Non Consensual Synthetic Image
Verification level: reported_but_unverified

Harm types

Non Consensual Imagery

Topics

Deepfake Synthetic Image

Summary

Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have charged two men, Cornelius Shannon of New Jersey and Arturo Hernandez of Texas, with creating and posting deepfake pornography under a new bipartisan law known as the ‘Take It Down’ act. The alleged perpetrators operated separate rings and were accused of creating thousands of images and videos depicting actresses, singers, political figures, and non-celebrity women in sexual situations. The Department of Justice identified approximately 473 albums containing 140 different victims, with prosecutors alleging that content published by Hernandez was viewed nearly a million times.

Sources

Two Men Arrested for Creating AI Deepfake Porn

futurism.com · 2026-05-25 · Primary