OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) - Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man accused of taking photos of two girls from social media and using AI to create deepfake pornographic images of the children in Marion County.

Detectives began investigating Lucius Martin, 39, after a mother reported finding sexual images of her daughter and her daughter’s friend on his phone on Monday.

She told detectives that he had photos of the girls taken from social media and edited them with AI to appear sexually explicit. She saved the photos and provided them to law enforcement.

“Most people haven’t heard of it, and you tell them and they say, ‘How is that even possible? ' But this is an example of how, as technology becomes more sophisticated, people find ways of using it in unanticipated ways,” shared Dr. Kevin Butler, dir

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