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Former Texas teacher pleads guilty to possessing AI-generated explicit images of students
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No source states: loss or records, developer and model, agent tool, could do, deployer, industry.
Severity major: test met: a stated count of two or more affected parties (two children identified as students), with a law enforcement investigation in federal court; the quoted sentence states the two identified children.
A former Austin ISD elementary school teacher, Carl David Innmon, pleaded guilty in federal court to possessing child sexual abuse material. The sources describe an AI image generator, which they do not name, being used with real photographs of students from a classroom to alter those images. Court documents state that over 365,000 images were found on his devices. A law enforcement undercover operation that began in May 2023 traced a computer sharing such material to an IP address registered to him in late February. Investigators then surveilled his home, executed a search warrant and seized devices. Two children were identified as students at the school where he worked. He faces up to 20 years in prison.
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ModelSafety training and refusal · Content safety classifiers · Abuse monitoring and account enforcement · Outside red-teaming
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No source states: what the AI was doing, what went wrong, what it reached or did, how it was caught, when it happened, when it was found, how many records were exposed, the direct loss, a count of the other parties affected, any court case, the cause, what set it off.
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- 2024-12-29 to 2025-01-15 The computer downloaded 126 files containing CSAM.
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- Court paperwork later stated that investigators found over 365,000 known CSAM images on his devices.
- He pleaded guilty in federal court to possessing child sexual abuse material.
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The affected-party count of 2 covers only the identified children.
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