A West Palm Beach content creator accused of using artificial intelligence to create fake, horrifying videos of strangers for social media content has been arrested.
Watch below: 'I just made a banger out of this,' man tells police in body camera footage
The 22-year-old was arrested on Nov. 30 after showing a gas station attendant an AI video of someone being dragged away during the Southern Boulevard and Dixie Highway marathon, according to a police report obtained by WPTV.
Police said the incident caused a disturbance and when officers arrived, the man refused to give his home address and was arrested on suspicion of resisting officers.
This is the fourth incident involving the same individual, who police say admitted to officers that he “acted out that night” to create more social media content and said people “would like his content more” because he was willing to get arrested.
“I just made a banger with this, boss. The last one I posted on TikTok got like a million hits,” the man told police on body camera footage on Nov. 18.
We will not publish or publish the names of the content creators as they have not been charged with any crime related to the AI videos.
“I'm definitely glad he's been arrested, because obviously my concern is that he would do it to other people, but also, what other schemes may he come up with?” Melanie Valentine said.
Watch below: “At that moment, it looked like a real video,” Melanie Valentine tells WPTV
Valentine's Day was my first time Report a similar incidentThe same man is involved. She said a man approached her at a hardware store on Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard a month ago and showed her an AI video showing her truck stolen and trying to get her into his car to “get the guy.”
“It was definitely scary. It was honestly shocking how real the video was,” Valentine said. “It certainly didn't seem like a prank.”
Police said the man was involved in at least four incidents, including three at hardware stores.
somewhere else Incident captured on body camera on November 18thOfficers said the man recorded the shoppers, created a fake video of the man kissing another woman, showed it to the man's wife, and recorded her reaction using meta glasses.
“That's going to be the crime. That's not his wife, that's a fake woman,” the content creator says in the video as he shows officers an image of his phone.
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Criminal defense lawyer Stuart Kaplan said it is not illegal to record people in public and create AI videos from them unless criminal intent can be proven. But he warned that such incidents are rapidly increasing and becoming more dangerous.
Currently, he is involved in an incident that happened in Miami. There, a man said he videotaped children on a playground and used the images to create child pornography.
“If AI is manipulated and falls into the wrong hands, it could have very troubling and harmful effects on our way of life,” Kaplan said.
Kaplan noted that lawmakers are “obviously very slow” in addressing the issue, but on Thursday, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a proposal for an AI Bill of Rights to “define and protect the rights of Floridians.”
According to the proposal, the bill would prohibit AI from using an individual's name, image, and likeness (NIL) without their consent.
“Obviously, we're in the early stages of this issue and who knows how to properly navigate it? I don't think anyone really knows yet, just raising awareness and maybe enacting new laws,” Valentine said.
Police have warned that AI videos are becoming increasingly realistic, making it difficult to distinguish between real and fake content. The content creator did not respond to requests for comment.
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