Mississippi Teacher accused of creating AI-generated explicit videos of students on work laptop

A former teacher for the Corinth School District has been charged after allegedly creating explicit videos of his students using AI.

On February 27, the Mississippi Department of Education filed a complaint with the Corinth Police Department regarding 30-year-old Wilson Jones. According to legal documents, authorities seized his laptop and thumb drive.

They discovered eight female students aged 14 to 16 who were victims of AI-generated video content showing them in sexually exploitative situations. Authorities said all the footage was AI-generated, and he was arrested Wednesday, March 12. The official charges against Jones are the production and possession of a morphed image of child pornography.

“The Corinth School District internet filtering system alerted district administration of inappropriate activity on a teacher computer. The District investigated the complaint, took action, and reported the matter, as required, to the Mississippi Department of Education Office of Educator Misconduct," the school district said.

"Since this relates to the employment of a former school district employee and is subject to a current law enforcement investigation, the District cannot offer any additional comment at this time. The District has cooperated and will continue to cooperate with any law enforcement request for assistance.”

The school was notified by the IT director, who found several emails and content flagged as "sexual."

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Law enforcement agencies across the U.S. are cracking down on a troubling spread of child sexual abuse imagery created through artificial intelligence technology — from manipulated photos of real children to graphic depictions of computer-generated kids.

Justice Department officials say they’re aggressively going after offenders who exploit AI tools, while states are racing to ensure people generating “deepfakes” and other harmful imagery of kids can be prosecuted under their laws.

“We’ve got to signal early and often that it is a crime, that it will be investigated and prosecuted when the evidence supports it,” Steven Grocki, who leads the Justice Department’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, said in an interview with The Associated Press.

“And if you’re sitting there thinking otherwise, you fundamentally are wrong. And it’s only a matter of time before somebody holds you accountable.”

The Justice Department says existing federal laws clearly apply to such content, and recently brought what’s believed to be the first federal case involving purely AI-generated imagery — meaning the children depicted are not real but virtual.

In another case, federal authorities in August arrested a U.S. soldier stationed in Alaska accused of running innocent pictures of real children he knew through an AI chatbot to make the images sexually explicit.