According to the Yomiuri Shimbun on 25th, a 25-year-old Hayashi man was sentenced by the Tokyo District Court to three years' imprisonment and four years' probation for misuse of generative AI to create a computer virus, marking the first time in Japan that there has been a criminal conviction for misuse of generative AI. According to the judgment and other documents, on March 31 last year, this man created a ransomware-like computer virus at his residence in Kawasaki City using a computer and a smartphone with a malicious program design (source code) obtained by Generative AI. In addition, he posed as another person and fraudulently obtained...