Japanese man sentenced to 3 years after creating crypto ransomware with AI
A 25-year-old Japanese man was sentenced to three years in prison last Friday for creating crypto-extorting ransomware using generative AI. Last year, Ryuki Hayashi created code capable of targeting and encrypting data from other devices and issuing crypto ransoms. He was able to do this by repeatedly rephrasing his prompts so that he could bypass generative AI safety parameters. Hayashi, who was reportedly unemployed at the time, told Kyodo News that he created the ransomware code in under six hours. Marc Andreessen gave an AI agent $50,000 of bitcoin — it endorsed GOAT Read more: Did ‘AI’ Truth Terminal just pump and dump a coin named $RUSSELL? When arrested this year by Japan’s Metropolitan Police Department, Hayashi admitted, “I wanted to make money through ransomware. I thought I could do anything if I asked AI .” His conviction for abusing generative AI is reportedly a legal first for Japan. During his sentencing, the judge described Hayashi’...