Three Arizona women sue men accused of making AI porn using their photos

In short: Three women in Arizona filed a lawsuit claiming men used their social media photos to make sexual AI images and sell both the content and lessons on how to create it.

What happened

Three Arizona women have filed a lawsuit against three Phoenix men, Jackson Webb, Lucas Webb, and Beau Schultz, plus 50 unnamed defendants. The complaint says the men took photos of real women from the internet and used AI to generate images and videos of fake models that closely resembled them.

One plaintiff, identified as “MG” in court papers, says she discovered Instagram videos that appeared to show her face placed onto a sexualized body with tattoos in the same places as hers. She says the images were also used to promote AI ModelForge, which the lawsuit describes as a business that taught men how to create “AI influencers” based on real women.

According to the suit, the defendants sold sexual content on Fanvue, a paid subscription site. It also claims they sold online courses for $24.95 per month through Whop, including step-by-step instructions for collecting women’s photos and training a model using CreatorCore (software that can learn a person’s look from photos, like teaching a copier to mimic one specific face). The lawsuit claims this activity generated large view counts and more than $50,000 in income in one month.

Why it matters

This case highlights how easy it can be to turn ordinary social media photos into convincing sexual images without permission. Even if platforms remove one post, copies can reappear elsewhere, like a game of whack-a-mole.

Source: Wired