Two Men Charged Under A.I.-Revenge Porn Law: What to Know
Two men in the U.S. have been charged under a new federal law for using artificial intelligence to create non-consensual explicit images. The Take It Down Act criminalizes the publication of A.I.-generated deepfakes, reflecting growing concerns about A.I. misuse. This case highlights the legal measures being taken to combat the rise of A.I.-related revenge porn.
- ▪Arturo Hernandez, 20, and Cornelius Shannon, 51, face charges under the Take It Down Act.
- ▪The law makes it a federal crime to publish non-consensual intimate imagery, including A.I.-generated content.
- ▪The Act mandates that platforms remove such material within 48 hours of notification.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 13 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ 2 men charged with creating AI-generated porn under new US law targeting ‘deepfakes’ — South China Morning Post
TIME — Top files mainly under news. We currently carry 213 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | TIME — Top |
| Canonical URL | https://time.com/article/2026/05/22/ai-deepfake-revenge-porn-take-it-down-act-law/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 22 May 2026 09:20:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-22T09:42:01.296Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-22T09:42:01.296Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | sLbVfVUv_uqh · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Two men in the U.S. have been federally charged with using artificial intelligence to generate sexually explicit photos and videos of women without consent under a new law, as global concern grows over regulating misuse of A.I.Arturo Hernandez, 20, and Cornelius Shannon, 51, were arrested in unconnected cases on Wednesday and each faces up to two years in prison. The men are some of the earliest defendants charged under the 2025 Take It Down Act, which criminalizes the publication and spread of non-consensual A.I.-generated deepfakes.The BriefDailyThe day's top headlines, curated by TIME editors.SubscribeBy signing up you are agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.Governments around the world are scrambling to develop safeguards as the use of generative A.I.
…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at TIME — Top.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from TIME — Top
