Lock Him Up A British man has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for using artificial intelligence to transform real photos of children into disgusting sexual abuse imagery. As The Guardian reports, the prosecution of 27-year-old Hugh Nelson is one of the first of its kind for the United Kingdom. After investigators caught wind of the Manchester-area man’s scheme, which involved using the AI-enhanced image editing software Daz 3D to create pedophilic “artwork,” he was convicted on August of 16 charges related to child sexual abuse. In some of the instances prosecutors highlighted during his trial, Nelson even took commissions from pedophiles he met in chatrooms who supplied him with photos of real children that they wanted to be transformed into abuse imagery. As the report notes, he made about 5,000 pounds, or roughly $6,486 USD, for the images. “There seems to be no limit to the depths of depravity exhibited in the images that you were prepared to create and exhibit to others,” Nelson’s prosecuting judge, Martin Walsh, said during the trial. Along with creating and selling the horrendous images, the man also encouraged others to rape children — and Walsh said it’s “impossible to know” whether any real-life children had been abused due to his prodding. New Precedent Nelson was brought to justice, The Guardian explains, after an undercover officer posing as a pedophile contacted him in one of the chatrooms he frequented and supplied him with pictures, a fake commission request, and about $100 to execute the…Man Imprisoned for 18 Years for Using AI to Do Disgusting Thing to Photos of Children