PARKLAND, Fla. — A 25-year-old man from Parkland was arrested last week on accusations that he created AI-generated child sexual abuse images, authorities confirmed.
According to an arrest report from the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the South Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force received a cyber tip in May from the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children that had been reported by xAI (commonly known as Grok), regarding the “possession and creation of child pornography” by an X user.
xAI is an artificial intelligence chatbot application available to X users.
Detectives said the X account was linked to Ray Lequerique Jr. and he was arrested on July 10.
According to the arrest report, Lequerique had created 29 sexual abuse images of girls who appeared to be between ages 5 and 9, which were viewed by xAI employees and then reported.
Detectives said the photos appear to have been derived from photos of real children that could have been easily obtained anywhere on social media and were also derived from pictures of children who he had close contact with.
According to the report, when questioned by detectives, Lequerique expressed remorse and said he “knew it was wrong.”
He was arrested on five counts of generated child sex abuse material, five counts of possession of child sexual abuse material and one count of compiling child pornography on a computer.
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