{"id":223174,"date":"2026-05-31T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/south-texas-man-accused-of-altering-images-of-real-children-to-create-ai-porn-dps-says\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T18:06:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:06:41","slug":"south-texas-man-accused-of-altering-images-of-real-children-to-create-ai-porn-dps-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/south-texas-man-accused-of-altering-images-of-real-children-to-create-ai-porn-dps-says\/","title":{"rendered":"South Texas man accused of altering images of real children to create AI porn, DPS says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/south-texas-man-accused-altering-images-real-children-create-ai-porn-dps-says\/19207645\/\">South Texas man accused of altering images of real children to create AI porn, DPS says<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/south-texas-man-accused-altering-images-real-children-create-ai-porn-dps-says\/19207645\/\">https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/south-texas-man-accused-altering-images-real-children-create-ai-porn-dps-says\/19207645\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-31 17:56:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"abc13.com\">abc13.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A South Texas man, Adan Covarrubias, was arrested following an FBI raid at his residence for allegedly possessing and creating over 900 AI-generated images and videos of child pornography.<\/li>\n<li>Covarrubias was charged under Texas Senate Bill 20, which makes the possession or promotion of obscene visual material depicting a child a felony, regardless of whether the depiction is real, cartoon, or AI-generated.<\/li>\n<li>The FBI executed the search warrant as part of a longer investigation, uncovering evidence including AI-generated content and images allegedly manipulated from photos found on websites of nearby schools.<\/li>\n<li>Texas Department of Public Safety\u2019s Criminal Investigation Division identified approximately 30 child victims among the images.<\/li>\n<li>Covarrubias was arrested on May 19 and booked into the Dimmit County Jail.<\/li>\n<li>Officials highlighted the growing accessibility of AI technology and its misuse, prompting warnings for parents to educate children about online safety.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Texas man accused of altering images of real children to create AI porn, DPS&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.abcotvs.com\/dip\/images\/19207622_053126-ktrk-TN-AI-child-porn-arrest-img.png?w=1600","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223176,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223174\/revisions\/223176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}