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The reports said he used photos of a woman from his church. Investigators believe one video was AI generated. A search warrant was conducted at his home on March 17, and he faces one count of possession of certain materials prohibited. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on April 15. These are allegations that have not been tested in court. The sources do not describe any AI system, developer, or platform used.","tags":[],"date_detected":null,"near_miss":null,"root_cause":null,"root_cause_detail":null,"failure_class_detail":null,"responsible_party":null,"adversarial_actor":null,"input_provenance":null,"time_to_contain":null,"operations_paused":null,"remediation":null,"precursor_events":null},"impact":{"direct_loss_usd":null,"remediation_hours":null,"records_exposed":null,"third_parties_affected_count":null,"severity":"moderate","severity_because":"Test: data or systems of others touched, with a bounded scope stated. 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No agent involvement is stated, so event.agent_involved and failure fields are omitted. The sources give no year for the March and April dates; the year is not estimated, and date_occurred, date_disclosed and date_detected are omitted. Country US is inferred from the N.D. dateline and the Fargo location. The incident class harmful_output and the human_misuse trigger are judgements based on the allegation. Detection by third_party is a judgement from the police receiving reports. Severity moderate is a judgement that photos of one identified woman were used, with a bounded scope. All claims are allegations not yet tested in court. No controls held, failed or were missing are stated, and no remediation is reported, so those lists are empty. Financial loss, record counts and third-party counts are not stated. Graphic content in the source has been omitted. 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