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Police said he allegedly used photographs of real women, including images from social media and other public online sources, to make the altered images. Police said the current eight charges involve one adult female victim, and investigators have identified several other women who may have been subjected to similar conduct. The victim came forward after discovering her image had been altered. Detectives searched his home and seized two phones, and a forensic review of the devices produced evidence that advanced the investigation. 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The current charges involve one adult female victim.","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://cbs12.com/news/crime/vero-beach-police-more-victims-more-charges-expected-in-ai-deepfake-generated-sexual-images-of-women-case-peter-solomon-ruma-deepfake-cyberstalking","publisher":"WPEC","date":"2026-09-03","type":"press","title":"Vero Beach police: More victims, charges expected in AI-generated sexual image case - WPEC","archived_url":null,"attachment":"first_report"}],"per_field_confidence":{"event.incident_class":"C","event.detection_method":"C","impact.severity":"D","impact.severity_because":"D","event.summary":"C","system.autonomy_level":"D","system.deployment_context":"D","event.trigger":"D","context.country":"D","system.developer":"D","event.date_disclosed":"D","context.denominator_available":"D"},"field_citations":{"event.incident_class":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Vero Beach police say they believe there are additional victims and expect more charges against a man accused of creating and sharing AI-generated sexually explicit images of women without their consent."}],"event.detection_method":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Investigators said the victim came forward after discovering her image had been altered."}],"impact.severity":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Police Chief David Currey said Thursday that the current eight charges against 37-year-old Peter Solomon Ruma involve one adult female victim."}],"impact.severity_because":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Police Chief David Currey said Thursday that the current eight charges against 37-year-old Peter Solomon Ruma involve one adult female victim."}],"event.summary":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Vero Beach police say they believe there are additional victims and expect more charges against a man accused of creating and sharing AI-generated sexually explicit images of women without their consent."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Police said Ruma allegedly used photographs of real women — including images from social media and other publicly available online sources — to make the altered sexual images."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Police Chief David Currey said Thursday that the current eight charges against 37-year-old Peter Solomon Ruma involve one adult female victim."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Investigators said the victim came forward after discovering her image had been altered."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Detectives searched Ruma’s home and seized two phones, Currey said, and a forensic review of the devices produced evidence that advanced the investigation."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Police believe Ruma acted alone, though Currey said that could change as the investigation continues."}]},"notes_on_gaps":"No AI model, developer, tool, harness or deployment is named in the source; the system fields are left out. No autonomous agent is described, so agent_involved and failure_class are left out. The source gives no date of occurrence and no explicit disclosure date sentence; the article is dated 2026-09-03 but that date is not stated as a disclosure in the text, so date fields are left out. The country is not stated by a quotable sentence (the source gives Fla. and Vero Beach), so context.country is left out. No root cause, trigger, responsible party, control held or failed, or remediation is stated. The severity of moderate is my judgement: images of others were touched and the scope is bounded by the stated charges, but the count of affected people is not confirmed, so third_parties_affected_count is left out. Harm class privacy is my judgement from the description of altered images of real women. Only one press source is given; no implicated organisation or government report is present. The source says Ruma is employed by ride-share services but states that no criminal conduct is alleged during that work, so it is not recorded as a link. 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