Hong Kong opens criminal probe into AI-generated porn scandal at city's oldest university

HONG KONG — Chinese authorities in Hong Kong have launched a criminal investigation after more than a dozen female students and teachers at the University of Hong Kong accused a male law student of using AI to generate deepfake porn images of them.
HONG KONG — Chinese authorities in Hong Kong have launched a criminal investigation after more than a dozen female students and teachers at the University of Hong Kong accused a male law student of using AI to generate deepfake porn images of them.
The probe, announced Tuesday by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, came after an outcry from students at the university, the city's oldest, who said it hadn't done enough to protect them or punish the accused.
"The images were organized into folders named after the victims, totaling 700+ images (including the original photos)," read a widely circulated letter that was posted Saturday on Instagram from an account run by three unnamed victims.
The accused, referred to in the letter only as “a male law student,” took photos of the victims from social media and used AI software to generate pornographic images with their faces, according to the letter. The images were discovered on his laptop reported to the university in February. They were not known to have been widely distributed.
In March, the university interviewed some of the victims, and in April informed one of them that the accused student had written a 60-word "apology letter."
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