Authorities continue their investigations to unravel the shocking case in Larissa, involving the defamation of an 11-year-old when unknown perpetrators used AI to create pornographic material featuring the minor. “It’s not my creation,” stated the 13-year-old student from Agia, who was arrested by police for child pornography involving artificial intelligence, following a complaint made on Sunday evening (14/09), when the 11-year-old realized that someone had used his photograph to create a video with pornographic content. The 13-year-old, who had sent the video to a closed group on SnapChat, was released without restrictive conditions after his testimony. “The mother of the child who showed this video went to the prosecutor about this matter. They were simply friends and he, I don’t know what he got, took the child’s face and put something else naked and displayed it on the internet,” a relative of the 11-year-old victim told a Mega TV show about the controversial video, which showed the minor naked in a room that wasn’t his own.
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Larissa: “I had no related material in my possession,” the 13-year-old claimed
It should be noted that the 13-year-old accused of distributing pornographic material stated: “The controversial video material, which is an AI product, is not my creation but came into my possession because another child, my classmate, sent it to a group chat that we maintain as a group of classmates. I know the 11-year-old from elementary school and we’ve hung out a few times, but not many, since he’s younger than me. We never had any dispute or disagreement between us”. “I had no reason to create such content, I had no related material in my possession. I hadn’t spent time with this particular child recently and he never concerned me. I don’t know the reason why the other child did this. Neither I nor the other members of the group knew that the material was an AI product,” he added. “I had no intention of spreading the material. Moreover, the group members on Instagram and Snapchat were the same, classmates from the first grade of middle school and therefore had already received the video,” the 13-year-old added, who during his testimony said he initially believed the video he was watching was genuine. “Because it didn’t seem right to me that such material featuring the depicted child should circulate, without thinking, I forwarded it to the cousin of the depicted child so he would become aware of the material circulating about his cousin and inform him. Immediately after, I called him saying ‘what are these silly things your cousin is doing in the video?’, since I didn’t know the material was manipulated,” the 13-year-old clarified.
He then stated: “I didn’t say who the other members of the group chat were because we perceived the video as nonsense that caused us amusement. I didn’t think to delete it immediately upon receiving the controversial video material”. “I never gave the slightest cause for arguments or tensions in my social interactions and at school all my teachers, parents and students have the best impression of me because I try to be both a good student and a child who is polite and friendly to everyone”, he emphasized. It should be noted that the 11-year-old’s family had requested prosecution of the 13-year-old for child pornography, defamatory libel and violation of personal data legislation.
