CHICAGO - It’s no secret child porn material generated by artificial intelligence is flooding the internet.

In a Fox 32 special report , Tia Ewing takes a look at how big the flood is and how prepared Illinois is to handle it.

This summer, DeKalb County sheriff police arrested Northern Illinois University student Michael Erickson on dozens of child pornography charges.

Many were shocked to hear investigators say most of those images had the faces of real people he knew from his high school in Batavia and that they had a pornographic image attached from an artificial intelligence program.

"We have some parents that have reached out to us from that area, and we're still trying to see if there's more that we can identify and go from there," said Jim Burgh, Chief Deputy of the De

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