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Police corporal created AI porn from driver's license pics

Officer created over 3,000 “deepfake” images. A corporal in the Pennsylvania state police yesterday pleaded guilty to a mind-boggling set of crimes that include going through his co-workers’ underwear, possessing a stolen gun, having child sexual abuse material on his hard drives, and using AI tools to create over 3,000 pornographic “deepfakes.” One of the deepfakes involved a district court judge, while many of the others were created based on photos downloaded illicitly from state databases, including driver’s license photos. Some of the imagery was even created at police barracks, using state-owned devices. Stephen Kamnik, 39, was arrested last year and charged with nine felonies and six misdemeanors. According to the Pennsylvania attorney general, “For years, Kamnik allegedly misused Commonwealth computer resources for his own personal sexual gratification, including the creation of AI-generated pornography of numerous female citizens of Pennsylvania.” The Philadelphia Inquirer notes that the investigation began back in 2024 after police officials “noticed that the computer assigned to [Kamnik] had been using an unusually high amount of Internet bandwidth” and that an external

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Police corporal created AI porn from driver's license pics

Officer created over 3,000 “deepfake” images. A corporal in the Pennsylvania state police yesterday pleaded guilty to a mind-boggling set of crimes that include going through his co-workers’ underwear, possessing a stolen gun, having child…

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Police corporal created AI porn from driver's license pics

Officer created over 3,000 “deepfake” images. A corporal in the Pennsylvania state police yesterday pleaded guilty to a mind-boggling set of crimes that include going through his co-workers’ underwear, possessing a…

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