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New Jersey Man Cornelius Shannon Allegedly Published Hundreds of AI-Generated Deepfake Pornography Albums in TAKE IT DOWN Act Case
- Occurred
- May 19, 2025
- Published
- May 20, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
In one of the first prosecutions under the TAKE IT DOWN Act, DOJ alleged that New Jersey defendant Cornelius Shannon published at least 360 albums of AI-generated deepfake pornography depicting about 90 women, including public figures, beginning during a charged period anchored to May 2025. Prosecutors said the content appeared on an adult image- and video-sharing platform and was viewed millions of times.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic media generation technology developers
- Synthetic image generation technology developers
- Synthetic video generation technology developers
Deployers
- Deepfake creators
- Cornelius Shannon
- Synthetic media creators
Harmed parties
- Women
- Victims of deepfake abuse
- Impersonated public figures
- Epistemic integrity
- Celebrities
- Women and girls
Tags
- response
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: First prosecution under TAKE IT DOWN Act for mass AI-generated deepfake pornography distribution.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8