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Child actor Kaylin Hayman fought back after she learned that a man had used AI
to make child sex abuse materials from images on her Instagram page
Last year, Kaylin Hayman walked into a Pittsburgh court to testify against a man
she’d never met who had used her face to make pornographic pictures with
artificial intelligence technology.
Kaylin, 16, is a child actress who starred in the Disney show Just Roll With It
from 2019 to 2021. The perpetrator, a 57-year-old man named James Smelko, had
targeted her because of her public profile. She is one of about 40 of his
victims, all of them child actors. In one of the images of Kaylin submitted into
evidence at the trial, Smelko used her face from a photo posted on Instagram
when she was 12, working on set, and superimposed it onto the naked body of
someone else.
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