Florida sues A2E operator over alleged nonconsensual sexual-image tools

Florida is seeking to stop an AI platform operator from offering tools that allegedly turn people’s photographs into sexual images without consent. Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the civil lawsuit against Rengstorff Consulting Ltd., which operates A2E and related mobile apps, on October 28, 2026. The complaint alleges deceptive trade practices involving imagery of adults and children.

The state’s challenge goes beyond what users allegedly generated. It accuses the company of allowing prohibited activity despite bans in its terms of service, without mandatory age checks, content moderation or protocols for reporting illegal material to law enforcement.

From uploaded photographs to alleged abuse

According to the complaint, A2E’s tools let users upload photographs or videos of people, including children, and generate realistic nude or sexualized depictions without their consent. The allegations concern the use of identifiable people’s source images—not simply the generation of fictional characters.

The state also alleges that the software can digitally “de-age” adults, making them resemble children in sexual images. That is a separate alleged capability from transforming an uploaded photograph of a child: the complaint challenges both routes to producing sexual depictions of underage likenesses.

To connect those allegations to actual use, the complaint cites criminal cases in Tampa and Tallahassee. Defendants in those cases allegedly used A2E to create sexualized images of minors. The state says the platform neither flagged nor reported the material.

Written bans, challenged controls

The alleged safeguard failures span several stages of the service. Beyond age verification and moderation, the lawsuit challenges whether A2E meaningfully verified consent, monitored activity, terminated accounts or reported abuse to law enforcement. Its allegations therefore address both preventing image creation and responding after prohibited activity occurs.

Companies that design and profit from AI tools that make it easier to generate child sexual abuse material or ‘nudify’ non-consenting people—while claiming they prohibit it—will be held accountable.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, in a statement

The restrictions Florida wants

Florida is pursuing the company under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. The requested relief combines restrictions on what Rengstorff Consulting can offer in the state with demands for money. The lawsuit seeks:

• A permanent injunction barring the company from marketing generative AI tools in Florida that produce nonconsensual sexualized imagery or child sexual abuse material.
• Restitution and the return of profits, described in the lawsuit’s requested remedies as disgorgement.
• Civil penalties of up to $10,000 per violation.

Those are remedies the state is asking a court to impose, not penalties or restrictions established by the filing itself. The civil action places the operator’s tools, safeguards and representations before the court; the allegations remain claims to be resolved, rather than findings against the company.