On the 24th, the People's Court of Nansha District, Guangzhou announced that a case of using "AI face swapping" technology to crack platform authentication and illegally obtain computer information system data was sentenced on the 23rd in Nansha, Guangzhou. The sentencing scene. It is reported that the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court has entrusted the Nansha District People's Court of Guangzhou to deliver the verdict on its behalf in accordance with legal provisions. According to the report, in April 2022, the defendant Li purchased training courses and related software programs through the internet, and mastered the technology of using someone else's personal portrait photos to achieve "AI face swapping" and forge live videos such as "blinking" and "shaking head", and was able to pass a certain facial real name authentication and log in to a personal account on a certain service platform system. From June 2022 to February 2023, in order to seek illegal benefits, Li recruited defendants Kong and Zhou (both handled separately) and taught them the above-mentioned techniques. The defendant Li contracted the illegal facial recognition business of the above-mentioned service platform from intermediaries such as Fu and Chen. Together with the defendants Kong and Zhou, they used the above-mentioned technology to crack the system login verification. Then, the relevant personnel information in the system was modified, added or removed by the previous company, providing assistance to multiple companies to obtain illegal benefits. During this period, the defendant Kong joined the Li technical gang in June 2022 to carry out illegal facial recognition business. He left the Li gang in August 2022 and recruited Wang and others (all handled separately) to form a relatively stable technical gang. He contracted illegal facial recognition business from intermediaries such as the defendant Chen and "Kun Ge" (on the run) to commit the same criminal acts. The defendants Chen, Fu, and Chen colluded with others as intermediaries to solicit multiple companies that did not meet the qualification requirements as clients, and provided corresponding personnel information and other materials to the defendants Li and Kong's gang in order to seek illegal benefits. After identification, it was found that the confiscated members of Li's gang, Kong's gang, Chen's gang, Fu's gang, and Chen's gang had over 7000 to 60000 pieces of personal information of citizens on their mobile phones and computer hosts, respectively. According to statistics, Li, Kong, Chen, Fu, and Chen received remuneration and illegal "facial recognition" fees ranging from 400000 yuan to over 1.2 million yuan, respectively. The People's Court of Nansha District, Guangzhou City, ruled in the first instance that the defendants Li, Kong, Fu, Chen, and Chen committed the crime of illegally obtaining computer information system data and were sentenced to imprisonment ranging from three years and eight months to three years and three months, and fined RMB 180000 to RMB 40000. After the verdict, the defendants Li and Kong were dissatisfied and appealed. The Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court has ruled in the second instance to reject the appeal and uphold the original verdict. (New Society)