A Montana man pleaded not guilty this week to accusations of using artificial intelligence to produce child sex abuse material.

Shy Herbert McCutchan, a 31-year-old Carter County resident, has been charged with multiple counts of possessing child sex abuse material, according to a statement from the Montana Department of Justice, by taking a photo of a child off social media and using an AI program to depict that child engaging in sex acts.

The case against McCutchan is one of the first instances of a charge being filed using the recently enacted state law that specifically criminalize possessing and producing sexually explicit images of children that have been altered via AI.

“With the laws we had until the latest (State) Legislature, we criminalized recordings of children being raped

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