Man from the hinterland created child porn with the help of AI - sentenced to prison

The man was convicted in 2024 of child pornography offences, after police found child pornography in a computer stolen from the man six years earlier.

During the investigation into that case, new criminal suspicions arose against the man and a house search was therefore carried out at his home. In the computers, mobile phones and hard drives that were seized, images and videos were found that caused him to be charged with child pornography offenses again.

Had 100,000 abuse photos

Police investigators have established that there are approximately 100,000 files depicting abuse against children, of which roughly 3,000 can be considered particularly reckless.

About a third of the material has been created by the man himself with the help of AI, according to police investigators.

The law must protect children in general

Lycksele district court determines that approximately 300 images of the material are AI-generated. The fact that these are also assessed as child pornography, even though they do not depict real children, is due to the fact that the legislation must protect children in general and also the child who may have been used as a model for the presentation. However, the district court does not consider that AI-generated child pornography has the same penal value as material that reproduces real abuse.

However, since most of the man's possessions include real children, he is convicted of gross child pornography. The penalty is set at one year and eight months in prison. The man has confessed to the crime.