Florida attorney general sues A2E operator Rengstorff Consulting over alleged non-consensual sexualized-image tools

What happened

On 28 October 2026, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced that his office had filed a civil lawsuit against Rengstorff Consulting Ltd, identified by the Attorney General's office as the operator of the A2E artificial intelligence platform and related mobile applications. The complaint alleges the company's tools allow users to generate sexualized images of real people without their consent, including children. The Attorney General's office announced the lawsuit alongside separate criminal charges in an unrelated case; the release does not state that the criminal defendant used A2E, and the two matters should not be conflated.

What the complaint alleges

According to the Attorney General's news release, the complaint alleges that A2E's website, mobile applications and related "nudification" tools allow users to upload real photographs or videos of people who have not consented, including children, and generate realistic nude, sexualized or child sexual abuse images and videos. The tools also allegedly permit users to digitally "de-age" adults so they resemble children in sexual conduct.

The complaint further alleges that, despite purported prohibitions in the platform's terms of service, A2E does not implement meaningful monitoring, consent verification, account termination or reporting to law enforcement, and that online discussions describe the platform as "uncensored" with "no red tape". The complaint cites Florida criminal cases in which A2E was allegedly used to generate sexualized images of minors, including a Tampa case in which a perpetrator allegedly created more than 100 sexualized images of his minor stepchildren and a Tallahassee case involving AI-generated depictions of minors; in those instances, the platform allegedly did not flag or report the material.

What the state seeks, and the status of the case

The Attorney General seeks a permanent injunction barring Rengstorff Consulting from offering generative AI products that allow users to create, view, possess or transmit non-consensual sexualized images or child sexual abuse material in violation of Florida law, along with disgorgement of profits and civil penalties of up to $10,000 per violation under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. A report of the filing in the Florida Phoenix, republished by PolishNews, states the 26-page complaint was filed in circuit court for the 12th Judicial Circuit in Sarasota County. These are allegations in a lawsuit; no court ruling on them has been reported.