Arizona indicts man for using AI to create child sex abuse images

By: Jerod MacDonald-Evoy

Outlets: Arizona Mirror

Published: May 12, 2026

Words: 354

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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A Chandler man will be the first person in Arizona prosecuted under a new law that makes it a felony to create AI-generated child pornography.

The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office on Tuesday announced that it had indicted William Powderly, 44, for possessing child sexual abuse material, including two images in which AI was used to swap the faces of a real child onto the face of another “young female” in “sexually explicit images,” according …

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