HARRISBURG — A York County man accused of possessing dozens of images of child pornography produced with artificial intelligence is the first defendant to be arrested by the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General on a new criminal charge adopted into law last year.
Luke A. Teipel, 22, of Dallastown, is charged with 33 counts of sexual abuse of children for possessing child sex abuse material — the new subsection of state law designating the possession of such artificially generated images as illegal. He faces one additional count of criminal use of a communication facility.
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