INDIANAPOLIS -- Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith (R-Indiana) said his office is considering whether to pursue legal action against a former staffer of his who alleges that an AI pornographic deepfake video was shown by other staffers in the office this past April.

“We are certainly, you know, we haven’t ruled it out if there is something that we do see where we can, you know, say, ‘hey, this deserves a pretty hefty slap on the wrist’ and then maybe we’ll move forward with it,” Lt. Gov. Beckwith said.

Lt. Gov. Beckwith said he found out about the allegations at the beginning of August and spent the next day and a half conducting interviews with staff members allegedly involved.

“As I started going down this process, there was nothing there, and I realized, do we have a video? Does anyone have—no,

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