In novel case, U.S. charges man with making child sex abuse images with AI

In a statement Monday afternoon, the Justice Department said it had levied criminal charges against Steven Anderegg, 42, of Holmen, Wis., for using the AI image generator Stable Diffusion to create over 13,000 fake images of minors, many of which depicted fully or partially nude children touching their genitals or engaging in sexual intercourse with men.