{"schema_version":"0.10.0","id":"LR-2026-0660","record_version":1,"title":"Escambia County man accused in AI child porn case involving local girls","verification":{"human_verified":false,"method":"automated_gate","auto_verified":true,"score":42.1,"score_breakdown":{"source_authority":12.1,"independent_corroboration":7.0,"implicated_party_confirmed":0.0,"citation_integrity":14.0,"specificity":0.0,"completeness":1.92,"unhedged_language":5.0},"checks":{"schema_valid":true,"every_field_cited":true,"quotes_verbatim":true,"source_fetched":true,"distinct_incident":true,"dates_plausible":true,"sources_agree":true,"source_describes_incident":true,"severe_backed_by_source":true,"record_integrity":true,"eligible":true,"about_this_case":true},"gate_version":"gate-2026-10-18.7","cross_check_model":null,"cross_check_agreement":null,"duplicate_of":null,"verified_by":null,"verified_at":"2026-11-01","extraction_run_id":null,"evidence_level":{"level":"preliminary","reason":"Publisher not yet named · subject to change","original_document":null,"reports_total":1,"reports_independent":0,"reports_derivative":0,"developing":false,"disputed":false,"rules_version":"evidence-2026-10-29.1","computed_at":"2026-11-01","history":[{"date":"2026-11-01","from_level":null,"to_level":"preliminary","reason":"Publisher not yet named · subject to change"}]},"sources_hash":"d3794f17ab2c7dddb616e51622d60b3a9d3d893b59b669f7decddca858b590bd"},"system":{"model_name":null,"model_version":null,"developer":"unknown","harness":null,"tools_granted":[],"permissions_scope":null,"autonomy_level":"unknown","guardrails_present":[],"deployment_context":"unknown","tier":null,"lifecycle_stage":null,"integration_type":null,"intended_use":null,"safeguard_state":null,"production_intended":null},"event":{"date_occurred":null,"date_disclosed":"2026-07-09","incident_class":"harmful_output","failure_class":null,"agent_involved":null,"secondary_failure_classes":[],"trigger":"unknown","duration":null,"detection_method":"unknown","summary":"A 73-year-old man in Escambia County, Florida, was charged after police said he used an AI platform called Art Space AI to alter photographs of local girls into child sexual abuse material. An arrest report says he uploaded at least six photos of local girls he had taken. Investigators interviewed him several times; during one conversation on July 1 he described using an AI program to alter images he uploaded. After a search of his home on Palisades Road, he told investigators he had paid for and used the platform but denied using it to generate images where clothes were removed. The report states he was the sole owner and user of the account. He faces six counts of cruelty toward a child and four counts of obscene material possession and was denied bond. These are allegations.","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: moderate, data of others touched with a bounded scope stated. Fact: at least six photos of local girls were uploaded to the platform, per the arrest report.","harm_class":[],"affected_description":null,"protected_class_involved":null,"data_categories_exposed":[],"loss_range_usd":null,"reversibility":null,"downstream_exposure_count":null},"evidence":{"sources":[{"url":"https://weartv.com/news/local/report-escambia-county-man-charged-for-ai-child-porn-uploaded-photos-of-local-girls","publisher":"WEAR TV","date":"2026-07-09","type":"press","title":"Report: Escambia County man uploaded photos of local girls in AI child porn case - WEAR TV","archived_url":null,"attachment":"first_report"}],"per_field_confidence":{"event.incident_class":"D","impact.severity":"D","impact.severity_because":"D","event.summary":"C","system.autonomy_level":"D","system.deployment_context":"D","event.trigger":"D","event.detection_method":"D","context.country":"D","system.developer":"D","event.date_disclosed":"D","context.denominator_available":"D"},"field_citations":{"event.incident_class":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"There are new details in the arrest of an Escambia County man accused of using artificial intelligence to create child sexual abuse material from photos of local girls."}],"impact.severity":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"An arrest report reveals Petersen uploaded at least six photos of local girls he had taken to an AI platform called \"Art Space AI.\""}],"impact.severity_because":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"An arrest report reveals Petersen uploaded at least six photos of local girls he had taken to an AI platform called \"Art Space AI.\""}],"event.summary":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"73-year-old Marc Petersen is behind bars in Escambia County and charged with using artificial intelligence to generate child sexual abuse materials."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"An arrest report reveals Petersen uploaded at least six photos of local girls he had taken to an AI platform called \"Art Space AI.\""},{"source_index":0,"quote":"During one conversation on July 1, Petersen told investigators about using an AI program to alter images he uploaded."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Fast forward to July 8, after a search of the home on Palisades Road, the report says Petersen told investigators then he paid for and used Art Space AI, but he says he denied using the program to generate images where their clothes were removed."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The report goes on to say Petersen is the sole owner and user of the account, and admitted to taking the original photos."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"He was denied bond and is being held in the Escambia County jail."}]},"notes_on_gaps":"Single press source reporting an arrest report; all facts are allegations and the article says the man is accused. No year is stated in the body (the 2026 date appears only in the source header and was not used as date_disclosed). No date_occurred, detection method, developer, model name, harness, or controls are stated. Art Space AI is named as a platform but no model, developer or safeguards are described, so system fields were left out. No autonomous agent is described, so failure_class and agent fields were left out. The number of girls affected is not stated; only at least six photos is given, so third_parties_affected_count was left out. Severity moderate was judged under the bounded-scope test using the six-photo count. Trigger human_misuse was judged from the accusation that the man used the AI to create the material. The country (United States, Florida) is implied by the dateline but no country sentence was quoted, so context.country was left out. No controls were stated as held, failed, bypassed or missing, and no remediation was reported. 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