Incident #1619
Bentonville, Arkansas, Photographer Allegedly Used Grok to Create AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material from Clients' Photos
Description
Bentonville, Arkansas, photographer Russell Bloodworth III allegedly used photographs of a 10-year-old client and other minors as reference images in Grok to generate and disseminate AI-generated child sexual abuse material. Police arrested him on June 10 and reportedly found about 1,700 child sexual abuse images and videos on his phone. The child's family later sued xAI and X Corp.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- synthetic-media-creators
- russell-bloodworth-iii
- grok-users
- deepfake-creators
- chatbot-users
- ai-generated-csam-creators
Alleged Developers
- xai
- synthetic-media-generation-technology-developers
- synthetic-image-generation-technology-developers
- large-language-model-developers
- deepfake-technology-developers
- chatbot-developers
Harmed Parties
- victims-of-deepfake-child-abuse
- victims-of-deepfake-abuse
- minors-depicted-in-synthetic-sexual-content
- minors
- epistemic-integrity
- children-depicted-in-synthetic-sexual-content
- victims-of-child-sexual-abuse-material