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   Police Used AI-Generated Child Photos to Lure a Suspected Predator

   According to 404 Media and Court Watch, an FBI task force officer with the Livonia Undercover Resistance to Exploitation Unit (LURE) in Michigan created a profile on the queer-focused dating app Taimi using an AI-generated image of a teenager-appearing male named "Caleb," with no age listed. After the investigator, posing as Caleb, said he was 15, the man replied that he was interested, sent sexually explicit messages over several days and arranged to drive to a meetup while believing Caleb's parents were out; he was taken into custody on arrival. Investigators also used Thomson Reuters CLEAR to check his phone number, Clearview AI to match his face and Flock to track his car; the man asked to speak with the officer two hours after booking and admitted everything, and the report says he works at an Illinois high school.

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2. Oct 7
   AI music streaming fraudster gets 18 months, must forfeit $8M

   The US Department of Justice said Michael Smith of Cornelius, North Carolina, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to forfeit $8,091,843.64 for using AI-generated songs and automated bot accounts to fraudulently collect streaming royalties. Prosecutors said he and co-conspirators uploaded hundreds of thousands of AI-made tracks between 2017 and 2024, using fake emails, fraudulently obtained debit cards, VPNs and playback software to generate billions of plays on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and YouTube Music. The DOJ called it its first prosecution of AI-assisted music streaming fraud; the court noted that in April 2023 his tracks drew 80.9 million YouTube Music family-plan streams, versus 9.3 million for Taylor Swift's entire catalog that month.

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