NJ deputy AG arrested for making AI CSAM, police say
Brian Richard Fitzgerald, New Jersey’s deputy attorney general, was arrested on Thursday on felony charges related to AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Bucks County Detectives stated that Fitzgerald allegedly used AI to create sexualized images from social media photos of real minors and distributed them online. The investigation began after the National Center for Missing and…
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- NJ deputy AG Brian Richard Fitzgerald arrested for AI-generated CSAM charges.
- Police recovered prompts and scripts used to create illicit images from his home.
- Fitzgerald allegedly admitted to sharing AI CSAM on Discord under a specific username.
“thegentlemanpervert” producing AI CSAM is a NJ prosecutor, say cops
Ars Technica AI · 16 October 2026
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