CONTENT WARNING: GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS A child psychiatrist in Charlotte, N.C., has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for using artificial intelligence to create child pornography and secretly recording his 15-year-old cousin as she showered, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Western District of North Carolina. David Tatum, 41, created the AI images by modifying pictures of ex-girlfriends with sexually explicit images of minors which he had obtained online.
Dena J. King, the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, said Tatum’s crimes were even more damning given to his profession as a child psychiatrist. 'Tatum knew the damaging, long-lasting impact sexual exploitation has on the wellbeing of victimized children, King said. 'Regardless, he engaged in the depraved practice of using secret recordings of his victims to create illicit images and videos of them.