BOISE, Idaho — A judge sentenced a Shoshone County man to prison in part under a new law against child sex abuse material generated by AI.
According to the Idaho Attorney General’s Office, 51-year-old Greg McFarlane will spend the next 10 years in prison, but will be eligible for parole after three.
McFarland was sentenced for two counts of possessing child porn and one count of possessing visual representations of child porn. This second crime is a new law to target AI-generated abuse material.
According to the AG’s office, law enforcement identified McFarlane through a database that detects information about people who upload child sex abuse material.
A search warrant was executed at McFarlane’s home and law enforcement located devices with more than 200 files of abuse material and AI generated images containing children as young as four and five years old.
“Idaho is committed to confronting every form of child exploitation—whether buried in the depths of the internet or advanced through new threats like AI-generated abuse material. My office will continue to pursue these threats with every tool we have. I commend the diligent work of our ICAC Unit, law enforcement partners, and prosecutors who brought these offenders to justice,” stated Attorney General Labrador.
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