POLICE

He sold photos of women that he undressed through AI but fell for child sexual exploitation

In San Juan, a young man was investigated for creating unclothed images of classmates through AI that he then marketed on social networks, but during the raids it was found that he also had "real material" of child pornography.

  • 04/10/2023 • 13:55

A 23-year-old young man, who was accused of selling photos of his fellow students after "undressing" them using an edition based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and who later faced charges of possession and distribution of images of child sexual exploitation. , ended up sentenced to three years in suspended prison, a decision agreed between the defense and the acting prosecutor's office framed in the lack of legislation that punishes digital violence against women, as proposed by bills under analysis by the National Congress. The event weighed on Mario Leandro Pérez González, a student studying Graphic Design at the National University of San Juan, resident in the town of Albardón, located north of the capital of San Juan. Three weeks ago, Pérez González was denounced by his fellow students for using AI and using their faces on the bodies of naked women, which he distributed on social networks. According to the complaint, the accused sold images of about 15 women in dollars, but he could not be convicted because the Prosecutor's Office ruled out that this action was part of a crime classified by the Penal Code. The investigation of the incident led to the discovery that the accused had and distributed images of sexual exploitation of minors, for which he received a three-year suspended prison sentence. At first, Pérez González denied having been the one who "undressed" his companions and assured that his social media account had been hacked, but prosecutors from the Comprehensive Approach Center for Boys, Girls and Adolescent Victims (Anivi) of the San Juan Judiciary found an additional criminal act. By tracking the IP, a kind of web address that identifies a device or network, of the distribution of those images, they found the young man's home and in a raid it was discovered that he also had "real material, not generated by intelligence." artificial", child sexual exploitation.