Two Men Federally Charged Over AI Deepfake Porn Under the Take It Down Act

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Incident details

Incident ID: inc_2026_05_22_b33a3da2
Date source: llm_extracted_from_article_text
Country: United States
Platform: Website
Incident type: Non Consensual Synthetic Image
Verification level: reported_but_unverified

Harm types

Non Consensual Imagery Fraud Scam

Topics

Deepfake Synthetic Image

Summary

Federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York charged Arturo Hernandez of Texas and Cornelius Shannon of New Jersey with using AI to generate and distribute non-consensual sexually explicit images of real women. The charges were filed under the Take It Down Act, a 2025 federal law that criminalizes the publication of non-consensual intimate imagery, including AI-generated deepfakes, and mandates platform removal of flagged content within 48 hours. Prosecutors allege the defendants uploaded over 470 albums containing more than 140 women to websites where the content received millions of views, depicting actresses, singers, political figures, and high school graduates in sexual acts using AI software to alter real photographs.

Sources

Two Men Federally Charged Over AI Deepfake Porn Under the Take It Down Act - Decrypt

decrypt.co · 2026-05-22 · Primary