Medium reported severity Criminal Charges

Louisiana warrant alleges AI sexual-image abuse of a woman

A Louisiana arrest warrant alleges that a man used AI to create sexual images and a video depicting a woman without her consent. She provided evidence to investigators. A felony charge was sought and the accusations had not been tried at review.

AI system: Unidentified image and video tool
Occurred: Event date unknown
Reported: 28 September 2026
Event location: United States

What the AI did: Depicted or impersonated the person
Reported harm: Exploitation or Abuse

Whose AI use: Someone else’s AI use
Setting: Work · Privacy · Relationships

Evidence: AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 4 sources, 1 underlying account; 3 claims: 3 reported. 4 open questions
People reported harmed: 1 person

AI system as recorded: An unnamed image- and video-generation website that the accused reportedly used to create nude images and a simulated sex video from a real woman's likeness (arrest warrant as reported); the tool is not identified

What Happened

Reported harm

According to the arrest warrant as reported, a woman was shown AI-generated nude images of herself and a simulated sex video of herself with a co-worker who had made them without her consent (Baton Rouge police warrant via WAFB, Louisiana First, The Advocate and WBRZ).

Outcome

Ongoing

What remains unknown

Which tool or website was used to create the images and video.
Whether the material was shared with anyone other than the woman.
Whether the man has been arrested and how he responds to the accusation.
When the commute on which the material was shown took place.

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: reported. The arrest warrant, as reported by four outlets, describes artificially generated nude images and an artificially generated video of the woman, and investigators say they found AI-generated nude images of her; the accused's texts refer to a website used to create them. The tool is not identified and no forensic finding is reported beyond the investigators' review.

3 claims: 3 reported. What the statuses mean

Reported An arrest warrant alleges that a man showed a woman AI sexual images and a video depicting her without her consent. She said the depicted activity had never happened.

Causal attribution. Police warrant based on the woman's report; one reporting chain. The allegations have not been tried.

wafb.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
'During one of those commutes, she told police'; 'She also told investigators he showed her an artificially generated video depicting the two of them engaging in simulated sexual intercourse.'; 'The woman told police the sexual activity shown in the video never happened'
yahoo.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
'The victim told police that the sexual activity never happened and that she did not consent to the creation or use of her likeness in nude or sexually explicit images or video.'
wbrz.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
'The woman said that she never consented to the creation or use of her likeness in these images and video.'

Reported Investigators say they reviewed the material and found AI-generated nude images of her and other images showing her and the accused in sexual situations; in texts quoted in the warrant he said he had deleted the material from his phone and from cloud storage linked to the website used to create it.

Causal attribution. Investigators' account in the warrant as reported.

wafb.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
'Investigators said they reviewed the material and found AI-generated nude images of the woman, along with other images showing her and'; 'She used her own phone to record what he was showing her and later gave that evidence to police.'
wbrz.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
'He later claimed to have deleted the images and videos from his cellphone and from the cloud services of the website the images were generated on.'

Reported A warrant was issued for the man's arrest on one felony count of unlawful deepfakes under Louisiana law.

Causal attribution. Police statement and warrant as reported; the warrant itself was not read.

yahoo.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
'on one count of unlawful deepfakes.'
theadvocate.com(opens in new tab) supports · English
'on one count of unlawful deepfakes, Baton Rouge Police said.'

Sources

4 sources inspected, from 1 underlying account. Sources that repeat one account do not corroborate each other.

WAFB — report on the case(opens in new tab)
s1 · wafb.com · News report · English · Inspected · 28 September 2026 · Shares an underlying account with another listed source · Primary
yahoo.com(opens in new tab)
s2 · News report · English · Inspected · Shares an underlying account with another listed source
theadvocate.com(opens in new tab)
s3 · News report · English · Inspected · Shares an underlying account with another listed source
wbrz.com(opens in new tab)
s4 · News report · English · Inspected · Shares an underlying account with another listed source

How the sources were read, and where the events happened

Read live on 2026-09-29 (WAFB, Gray Media, 28 September 2026); the Fox 8 page carries the same copy. Reports the arrest warrant. Applies to s1.

Read live on 2026-09-29: Louisiana First (Nexstar) story syndicated on Yahoo. Reports the same warrant. Applies to s2.

Read live on 2026-09-29 (The Advocate). Reports the same warrant and Baton Rouge police statement. Applies to s3.

Read live on 2026-09-29 (WBRZ). Reports arrest records; calls the [identifying detail withheld] man a Baton Rouge man in its headline. Applies to s4.

Event countries: United States. Affected-person countries: United States. Court countries: United States.

The Baton Rouge Police Department investigated and the arrest warrant was filed in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana (WAFB); the woman reported to Baton Rouge police. The location of the commute is not stated beyond Baton Rouge police jurisdiction.

Reviewed for publication 2026-09-29: Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): according to a police arrest warrant reported by four Louisiana outlets, a man made AI nude images and a simulated sex video of a co-worker and showed them to her. The account is one reporting chain from the warrant; the accusation is untried. Neither the woman nor the accused is named here.

People described

An unnamed adult woman in Louisiana allegedly depicted without consent.

People reported harmed in this case

1 person

0 AI participants · 1 other person harmed

One woman, the depicted co-worker who reported the images to police (arrest warrant as reported). Exact 1.

Counted once within this case. The same person may appear in other cases. This count does not establish AI causation.

Cite this case

Compiled per our published methodology: verification statuses, sourcing standards, and corrections process.

APA

NOPE. (2026). Louisiana warrant alleges AI sexual-image abuse of a woman. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2026-louisiana-warrant-alleged-ai-sexual-image-abuse

BibTeX

@misc{2026_louisiana_warrant_alleged_ai_sexual_image_abuse,
  title = {Louisiana warrant alleges AI sexual-image abuse of a woman},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {AI incidents},
  url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2026-louisiana-warrant-alleged-ai-sexual-image-abuse}
}

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