Police alleged a person arrested in December had used Grok, xAI's chatbot, to edit photos, including one from the teen girl's Instagram account, removing a blue bikini from one image to "depict her without any clothes," according to a lawsuit filed Monday.
Forensic examination of a hard drive connected to a laptop revealed 15 images and 15 videos of extreme pornography with creation dates between February and May 2022. Officers also found 18 still images and six videos featuring child sexual exploitation, some of them of the most serious kind and featuring both boys and girls aged between four and 10.
Officials investigated an IP address that was linked to Courtemarche and a search warrant was served in July. "An interview was conducted with Courtemarche and during interview, Courtemarche admitted to possessing and downloading CSAM from bit torrent," California Highway Patrol Officer Rene Rojo wrote in the affidavit. "He identified the electronic device that would contain the CSAM. One device was collected and analyzed and over 1,000 files of CSAM were identified."
"It's nice to no longer be a soloist, and be part of a choir. We've been having so many productive discussions with other regulators around the globe and researchers that are doing important work in this space, she said. I think this really represents a tipping point. This is global condemnation of carelessly developed technology that could be generating child sexual abuse material and non-consensual, sexual imagery at scale."
A statement on the Commission's website said that the investigation would "assess whether the company [X] properly assessed and mitigated risks associated with the deployment of Grok's functionalities into X in the EU." "This includes risks related to the dissemination of illegal content in the EU, such as manipulated sexually explicit images, including content that may amount to child sexual abuse material," it said, saying that EU citizens had already been exposed "to serious harm" from such risks.
And what he said is deceptive at best because while maybe there weren't actual nude images, it was pretty close to it, and the images that I saw not only of myself, but of I don't even know whose children who were undressing and covered in various fluids, the abuse was so widespread and so horrific, and it's still allowed to happen. They just released restrictions that are based on where it's illegal.
Months after he was arrested for allegedly starting a fire by setting off homemade explosives, an ex-Stockton cop has been charged with possessing child sexual abuse material, court records show. Gregory Klemme, of Petaluma, has been charged in federal court with possession of child pornography, a federal offense that carries up to 20 years behind bars. This new case comes roughly seven months after Klemme was charged in Sonoma County with possessing homemade explosives and methamphetamine in what started as an arson investigation.
When Brian Susbielles, 35, disembarked in Fort Lauderdale on Sunday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers conducted a border search of his iPhone and MacBook and found illicit images and videos of children engaged in sexual acts along with sexual online conversations regarding the pictures and videos, according to a criminal affidavit. Susbielles had been sailing on Holland America Line's Volendam for 30 days, leaving from New York.
Since the early days of the internet, with AOL chatrooms and online bulletin boards, there have been unhealthy, dangerous, and predatory individuals who used these electronic environments to act inappropriately towards minors. Children and adolescents have received disturbing sexual comments and solicitations from online creeps. Sometimes, these individuals would attempt to meet up with the children, even sometimes traveling across the country to meet the child in person.
