No brain for crime -Japan's first conviction for AI related cases-
Around March 31 of 2023, Ryuki Hayashi, a 25‑year‑old man in Kawasaki, used AI to put together a ransomware‑type virus. He didn’t have the actual knowledge or technology, but just pulled several illegal codes and mixed it together, an act in which he tried to make “easy money”.
The Tokyo police arrested him, and the court later found him guilty. He got a three‑year sentence that was suspended for four years, which means he won’t have go to prison unless he commits a crime again.
This is basically the first case in Japan where someone was convicted for using AI to make malware. Further investigation also found he bought SIM cards under other people’s names and used an unofficial AI model that let him through loopholes of safety rules.
AI tools help not just to generate sentences and creative contents, but also viruses and systems. It makes things more complicated to detect, block and restrict, and therefore the world must work on law related to AI as soon as they could.
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Man arrested in Japan for creating malware using generative AI. (n.d.). 時事通信ニュース. https://sp.m.jiji.com/english/show/33231
Japan's First Case: Man Sentenced for Abusing Generative AI to Create Computer Virus
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