{"id":199793,"date":"2025-10-14T16:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199793\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T16:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:37:08","slug":"man-stores-ai-generated-robot-porn-on-his-government-computer-loses-access-to-nuclear-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199793\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Stores AI-Generated \u2018Robot Porn&#8217; on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man who works for the people overseeing America\u2019s nuclear stockpile has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/oha\/articles\/psh-24-0142-matter-personnel-security-hearing?ref=404media.co\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lost his security clearance<\/a> after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. As part of an appeals process in an attempt to get back his security clearance, the man told investigators he felt his bosses spied on him too much and that the interrogation over the porn snafu was akin to the \u201cSpanish Inquisition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On March 23, 2023, a DOE employee attempted to back up his personal porn collection. His goal was to use the 187,000 images collected over the past 30 years as training data for an AI-image generator. He said he had depression, something he\u2019d struggled with since he was a kid. \u201cDuring the depressive episode he felt \u2018extremely isolated and lonely,\u2019 and started \u2018playing\u2019 with tools that made generative images as a coping strategy, including \u2018robot pornography,\u2019\u201d according to a DOE report on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>    This post is for paid members only<\/p>\n<p>Become a paid member for unlimited ad-free access to articles, bonus podcast content, and more.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"btn btn--brand m-b-lg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/membership\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    Sign up for free access to this post<\/p>\n<p>Free members get access to posts like this one along with an email round-up of our week&#8217;s stories.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"btn btn--brand m-b-lg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/signup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who works for the people overseeing America\u2019s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-199793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}