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A budding filmmaker who used AI to make indecent images of children was jailed for 18 years today – as footage emerged of him admitting to having a ‘warped’ mind.
Hugh Nelson said he was providing a ‘valuable service’ by taking ‘commissions’ from relatives and family friends of youngsters – charging them £80 to turn a real image of a child into a 3D ‘character’ being physically and sexually abused.
The 27-year-old was shown on camera confessing to detectives that his actions had been ‘absolutely grotesque’ after being confronted with evidence about his ‘sick’ deepfake factory.
But he showed no emotion this morning as he was jailed at Bolton Crown Court for 18 years, plus six years on licence, after previously pleading guilty to 11 offences.
Operating from his family home near Bolton, Nelson used AItechnology to manipulate innocent photographs of real children as young as four into scenes …