Mississippi Teacher Accused of Using AI to Make Child Sex Abuse Material Featuring 8 Middle School Students: FBI

A Mississippi school teacher was arrested and faces multiple federal charges after he allegedly used an AI program to generate child sex abuse material featuring students.

Wilson Jones, 30, allegedly made videos featuring eight former and current students from the Corinth school district between the ages of 14 and 16, according to an affidavit filed by the FBI in Mississippi federal district court, which was obtained by PEOPLE.

"The videos depicted known Corinth students engaging in inappropriate behavior including kissing and exposing themselves," states FBI Task Force Officer Bo Swindle in the affidavit in support of criminal complaint and arrest warrant.

None of the eight students were aware of the videos, according to the affidavit.

The affidavit details the prompts Jones allegedly fed the AI system while generating three of the videos.

"Two girls posing in each other's arms, stopped to kiss. Kissing like they are truly in love," are the commands Jones allegedly entered to generate the first video.

Jones allegedly instructed the AI system to have the girls "disrobe" in the second video and then "explore one another" in the third video.

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The principal at Corinth Middle School, Chris Killough, learned about the videos in November after activity on Jones' school-district-issued computer set off a "severe alert tagged as sexual," according to the affidavit.

After school officials obtained and reviewed the material, Jones met with Killough and allegedly "admitted "admitted he created videos using AI, but claimed it was not sexual," says the affidavit.

Jones also allegedly told Killough that he used images from social media to generate the videos, and upon further search was allegedly found to have "screenshots containing email user names and passwords of students no longer at the middle school campus" stored on his computer "for no legitimate reason," according to the affidavit.

One day after that meeting, on Nov. 21, Jones resigned from his position.

It is unclear why the school waited two months to inform the MDOE of education about the incident, and why the MDOE then waited another month before alerting local police.

The Corinth Police Department wasted little time in notifying the FBI about the incident, and within a few days the federal agency served the school with a subpoena to "get all evidence, documentation, statements, videos, laptops and anything related to this incident."

The Corinth School District said in a statement: "The District investigated the complaint, took action, and reported the matter, as required, to the Mississippi Department of Education Office of Educator Misconduct."

They declined to speak further about the incident though, saying they couldn't comment on an employment matter.

Jones has yet to be formally charged with a crime but the affidavit lists his alleged violations as knowingly producing and possessing child pornography as well as generating child pornography that features an identifiable minor.

On Thursday, a judge agreed to release Jones from custody after he posted his $20,000 bail, but court records show that he will be under house arrest and forced to wear a monitoring device at all times.

He is being represented by a local public defender, but neither he nor Jones responded to requests for comment from PEOPLE.

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