Vile paedophile who used AI to sell indecent images of real children jailed for 18 years in UK first
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA depraved paedophile who used AI to create computer generated indecent images of real children has been jailed today in a 'landmark' case.
Hugh Nelson, from Bolton, took 'commissions' from relatives and family friends of children as young as four, charging them £80 to turn a real, legitimate image of a child into a 3D modelling 'character' using AI face transfer.
This 'character' could then be posed and adapted however they wished. In a sentencing on Monday (October 28) at Bolton Crown Court, Nelson was jailed for 18 years, plus six years on licence, after previously pleading guilty to 11 offences. READ MORE: Life in the Greater Manchester town with a TWELVE year housing wait Appearing over video link from HMP Forest Bank, Nelson kept a blank face as his sentence was handed down.
Prosecuting in a previous appearance on Wednesday (October 25), David Toal said Nelson began speaking to a law enforcement officer called 'Chris' over a site called Matrix, where the defendant was using the handle 'SweetDemons'.
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