CORINTH, Miss. (WMC/Gray News) – A now-former teacher with a Mississippi school district is facing criminal charges after police say he used artificial intelligence to create explicit videos of students.
Wilson Jones, a teacher with the Corinth School District, was arrested Wednesday and charged with production and possession of a morphed image of child pornography. The school district says the 30-year-old is no longer employed, WMC reports.
The Mississippi Department of Education sent a complaint to the Corinth Police Department on Feb. 27 alleging that Jones violated the Mississippi Educator Code of Ethics. A subpoena was issued to seize his laptop and a thumb drive.
Police reviewed the contents and identified eight female students between the ages of 14 and 16 as victims of AI-generated video footage depicting them engaged in sexually exploitative conduct.
Police say the victims were never filmed. Jones allegedly generated the AI footage of the students by using images taken from their social media accounts and uploading them to the generative software.
The victims’ parents were immediately notified after the discovery.
According to federal court documents, in November, the principal of Corinth Middle School was alerted to suspicious activity on Jones’ computer that was detected during school hours by the Bark app, which is used to monitor and control online activity on all school district computers.
The email from Bark showed a “severe” alert tagged as “sexual” from Jones’ computer.
The school’s IT director accessed Jones’ computer and reviewed three explicit videos that were flagged. Jones allegedly uploaded the content to his Google Drive, which triggered the Bark alert.
The videos reportedly depict students kissing and exposing themselves.
The school’s principal and vice principal confronted Jones about the discovery the next day. According to the affidavit, Jones admitted that he created the videos using AI but claimed it was not sexual.
The Corinth School District released the following statement about the case:
“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.
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.”
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