Malay Mail reports:
A 25-year-old man has become the first person in Japan to be convicted for criminal activities involving generative AI.
According to The Yomiuri Shimbun, the Tokyo District Court found Ryuki Hayashi guilty of creating a computer virus using interactive generative artificial intelligence.
He was sentenced to three years in prison, suspended for four years. Prosecutors had sought a four-year sentence.
The newspaper reported that Hayashi developed the ransomware-like virus at his home in Kawasaki around March 31, 2023, using illegal source code obtained with AI tools.
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