Resident Used AI Chatbots to Harass and Intimidate Victims
CrushOn.ai, JanitorAI
An individual pleaded guilty to cyberstalking charges after leveraging AI tools and chatbots to create deepfake pornography, impersonate victims, and distribute doctored content. The multi-year campaign caused significant harm to multiple individuals.
- first report
- 23 Jan 2025
- last update
- 23 Jan 2025
Timeline · 1
Sources · 1
Research and catalogues
- 2025-01-23Plymouth, Massachusetts Resident Reportedly Used AI Chatbots CrushOn.ai and JanitorAI to Harass and Intimidate VictimsAI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/916
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Classification
- AI role
- AI-enabled attack
- categories
- Deepfake fraud
- severity
- 4 · Confirmed real-world loss
- targets
- Individuals
- owasp llm top 10
- no entry for these categories
- dates
- happened 23 Jan 2025 · first reported 23 Jan 2025
- origin
- AI Incident DatabaseDerived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- record
- confidence 0.95 · created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z
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# Resident Used AI Chatbots to Harass and Intimidate Victims https://gcdradar.vercel.app/incidents/resident-used-ai-chatbots-to-harass-and-intimidate-victims · AIR-2025-0093 · closed 2025-02-06 - Lane: Breaches & attacks - Severity: 4 (Confirmed real-world loss) - Fix status: No fix needed - First reported: 2025-01-23 - AI role: AI-enabled attack - Products: CrushOn.ai, JanitorAI ## Summary An individual pleaded guilty to cyberstalking charges after leveraging AI tools and chatbots to create deepfake pornography, impersonate victims, and distribute doctored content. The multi-year campaign caused significant harm to multiple individuals. ## What to do No action recorded; read the sources below and the vendor's advisory. ## Latest updates - 2025-01-23: Plymouth, Massachusetts Resident Reportedly Used AI Chatbots CrushOn.ai and JanitorAI to Harass and Intimidate Victims (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/916) ## Sources - 2025-01-23 AI Incident Database: Plymouth, Massachusetts Resident Reportedly Used AI Chatbots CrushOn.ai and JanitorAI to Harass and Intimidate Victims https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/916 Verify against the vendor's advisory before changing production. Data CC BY-SA 4.0, https://gcdradar.vercel.app.
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