Microsoft Names Developers It Sued for Abusing Its AI Tools

Microsoft is trying to show its commitment to AI safety by amending a lawsuit filed last year to unmask the four developers it alleges evaded guardrails on its AI tools in order to generate celebrity deepfakes. The company filed the lawsuit back in December, and a court order allowing Microsoft to seize a website associated with the operation help it identify the individuals. The four developers are reportedly part of a global cybercrime network called Storm-2139: Arian Yadegarnia aka “Fiz” of Iran; Alan Krysiak aka “Drago” of the United Kingdom; Ricky Yuen aka “cg-dot” of Hong Kong and Phát Phùng Tấn aka “Asakuri” of Vietnam. Microsoft says there are others it has identified as involved in the scheme, but does not want to name them yet so as not to interfere with an ongoing investigation. The group, according to Microsoft, compromised accounts with access to its generative AI tools and managed to “jailbreak” them in order to create whatever types of images they desired. The group th ... Read full article.