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Ohio man used more than 100 AI tools to make fake nudes of women and minors. An Ohio man became the first person convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to creating and sharing both real and AI-generated explicit images…
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Ohio man used more than 100 AI tools to make fake nudes of women and minors. An Ohio man became the first person convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to creating and sharing both real and…
Read original at Ars Technica →James Strahler II pleaded guilty to cyberstalking, producing obscene images and digital forgeries of child sexual abuse Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox An Ohio man pleaded…
Read original at The Guardian →The Trump administration announced it will pay nearly $1 billion to French energy giant TotalEnergies in exchange for the company abandoning plans to build offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean and instead pursue…
Read original at CNN →Last week, Michael Smith pleaded guilty to creating hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs and then using bots to stream the songs “billions” of times. The scheme allowed Smith to earn over $8 million in royalties,…
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Ohio man used more than 100 AI tools to make fake nudes of women and minors. An Ohio man became the first person convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to creating and sharing both real and AI-generated explicit images…
View source →James Strahler II pleaded guilty to cyberstalking, producing obscene images and digital forgeries of child sexual abuse Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox An Ohio man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to…
View source →The Trump administration announced it will pay nearly $1 billion to French energy giant TotalEnergies in exchange for the company abandoning plans to build offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean and instead pursue fossil fuel projects…
View source →Last week, Michael Smith pleaded guilty to creating hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs and then using bots to stream the songs “billions” of times. The scheme allowed Smith to earn over $8 million in royalties, according to the…
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