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Lock Him Up A British man has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for using artificial intelligence to transform real photos of children into disgusting sexual abuse imagery.…
Tell Me a Story When being evaluated for a job, employment seeker and marketer Jack Ryan found himself being interviewed by an artificial intelligence-powered avatar — and was not exactly…
Faker’s Ball An alleged scammer has been arrested under suspicion that he used AI to create a wild number of fake bands — and fake music to go with them —…
Florida Man A Florida man is facing 20 counts of obscenity for allegedly creating and distributing AI-generated child pornography, highlighting the danger and ubiquity of generative AI being used for…
Today’s links Nalo Hopkinson’s “Blackheart Man”: Language and worldbuilding to drown in, and a cracking novel besides. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009,…
Estoy Aqui Meta’s AI chatbot kept giving strangers a man’s phone number, and it remains unclear how or why it happened. As Business Insider’s Rob Price reports, the debacle began when…
Legal Tricks A South Carolina man accused of pretending to be a lawyer has just had another allegation leveled against him: that he used AI to write his phony legal…
An Irish DJ and talk show host is suing Microsoft after discovering that MSN circulated an AI-fabricated news article falsely accusing him of sexual misconduct, a New York Times investigation into…
Dodgy Prompts In the early 2000s, Steven “Lightspeed” Jones operated a collection of porn websites, netting him half a million dollars a month. Those revenues quickly started drying up with…
Girl Talk In China, new AI chatbots offer romance and companionship that can rival that of a human lover. In interviews with the AFP news wire, young women in China…