The Royal Thai Police raided the home of a 24-year-old young man, the head of an artificial intelligence office that teaches pornographic image editing to female artists from the band PiXXiE and many celebrities, revealing that he opened the course through a secret group with more than 400 members and the images were of good quality and realistic.
On 2 March 2024, Lieutenant General Jirapop Forridge, Commander of the Central Bureau of Investigation, General Atip Phongsiwapai, Commander of the Royal Thai Police, Colonel Chit Nopong Widi, Superintendent Sub-District 3, Royal Thai Police, ordered Lieutenant Colonel Bokchat Sangwanwao, Superintendent Sub-District 3, Royal Thai Police. Royal Thai Police, Lieutenant Colonel Itsarapong Thipapakul, Deputy Superintendent of Sub-District 3, Royal Thai Police Lieutenant Colonel Nuavon Pattanipon, Inspector (Investigation), Division 3, Royal Thai Police, Lieutenant Colonel Chaiwat Khanjang, Police Inspector, Division 6, Royal Thai Police.
Submission of a search warrant to the Songkhla District Court searched the residence of Mr. Kasama Sanyakul, 24 years old, in the area of Hat Yai District, Hat Yai District, Songkhla District, after learning that she had participated in editing explicit photos of several female stars and artists.
This arrest was made after the T-POP artist group PiXXiE (Pixies), which consists of Mabel Suchada Sonvan, Pimma-Pimmada Jaisakseren, and Ingo-Int, informed officials. Chotihiranthanon said there is a network of porn editors that use generative AI tools that can transform images of ordinary people. To become an obscene image and publish it on social media, causing harm
Upon investigation, it was found that the aforementioned group is affiliated with the network. There will be a course to teach how to use Image Geneative AI, in addition to selling scripts (command sets) and artificial intelligence models, and the course will be taught by Mr. Kassama. For this photo editing course the parameters are adjusted to achieve accurate and high-quality editing.
The investigation revealed that Mr. Kassama taught and collected teaching fees through a secret group that included more than 400 members. Mr. Kassama also edited his own photos using the tools mentioned above.
Later, officials collected evidence and requested approval to issue a search warrant from the Songkhla District Court. Mr Kassama's home was searched before the search and seizure of items for preliminary examination of evidence
During the investigation, Mr. Kasama admitted that he graduated in information technology. He has the ability to use artificial intelligence tools, tagging and editing photos of victims and many celebrities. It uses Image Geneative AI tools that are pre-trained models and adjusted parameters so that the images become good quality and realistic.
Initially, officials were preparing to consider filing charges. “This was done for the purpose of trade or through trade for distribution or display to the public or manufacturing, production, ownership, import or import into the Kingdom? Was it exported or not and should it be exported outside the Kingdom? Did you take, take or announce by any means any documents or drawings? “or prints, drawings, publications, photographs, advertising images, banners, photographs, films, sound recordings, tape recordings or anything else obscene and importing them into a computer system, where computer data of an obscene nature and computer data may be available to the general public.”
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