A New Jersey Prosecutor Is Charged Over AI-generated Abuse Material
New Jersey's deputy attorney general, Brian Richard Fitzgerald, was arrested on felony charges related to AI-generated child sexual abuse material, Bucks County Detectives said. New Jersey officials accused the 51-year-old of using AI to make photos from social media of real minors into sexualized images that he then distributed on social media. The striking part is the defendant: a serving deputy attorney general is the one facing the charges.
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The Justice Department's stated position predates this case. After charging a Wisconsin man in 2024 with spreading thousands of realistic images of children across Telegram and Instagram, the department clarified to law enforcement that CSAM generated by AI is still CSAM.
The alleged starting point is what makes this concrete rather than abstract: not an invented face, but a photograph of a real child. The generation step changes the medium, not the subject.