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Risto Bergman: Telecoms employee who created AI-generated photos of kid intercourse abuse is sentenced

By Editorial Board Published May 19, 2025 2 Min Read
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Risto Bergman: Telecoms employee who created AI-generated photos of kid intercourse abuse is sentenced

A telecoms employee who created AI-generated photos of kid intercourse abuse has been sentenced.

Risto Bergman, 42, who’s initially from Finland, used a professional synthetic intelligence app to make indecent photos of younger women being abused.

Scotland’s Crown Workplace and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) stated the pictures had been “so realistic” that they might be taken for genuine images.

Bergman was stated to have used sexually descriptive search phrases whereas utilizing the app.

COPFS stated AI then generated the “distressing images” by drawing upon a “digital library” of a whole lot of images of actual youngster abuse which had been beforehand shared on-line by paedophiles.

Photographs found on a pc storage unit present in Bergman’s Paisley flat included some described as class A – depicting probably the most excessive kind of kid intercourse abuse.

Bergman, who has since moved from Renfrewshire to Argyll and Bute, final month pleaded responsible to creating indecent images or pseudo-photographs of youngsters.

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He returned to Paisley Sheriff Court docket on Monday, the place he was handed an 18-month Neighborhood Payback Order (CPO).

His title was additionally added to the intercourse offenders’ register.

David Bernard, procurator fiscal for north Strathclyde, stated Bergman had created unlawful materials that each exploited youngsters and perpetuated abuse.

He stated: “This is by no means a victimless crime. Bergman’s depraved actions effectively encouraged those who abuse children to continue their activities.

“Synthetic intelligence apps draw upon on-line photos of actual youngsters being subjected to sexual abuse. Behind each AI-generated ‘pseudo-photograph’ of abuse are real-life youngster victims.

“Bergman made himself a participant in that process.”

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