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AI images - does this make any difference to charges/outcome?

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BeyondBewildered

Member since
January 2026

2 posts

Hi there

I've tried to search for posts from others about this but the search function pulls up every word that contains the letters AI (chair, fair etc) so it's not been helpful.

In my situation, my person was initially found to have mostly AI IIOC, with one real but commercial image. All are likely Cat C. There's a chance more evidence may be found by forensics but that's the current situation.

I'd be interested in hearing if anyone else's situation involved AI images and whether this affected charges or outcome differently? (As opposed to real images)

Thank you

Posted Fri January 2, 2026 11:15amReport post

lostinthewoods

Member since
September 2024

226 posts

We were told that AI images were treated the same as 'real' images - in the same way that a police decoy is treated the same as real child for sentencing purposes.

In our case the 2 image charges were worded so it covered both AI (psuedo) images and real images.

Posted Fri January 2, 2026 1:27pmReport post

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