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Delhi man arrested for ‘cyber harassment’; QR code of noodles vendor leads to accused: Police | Latest News India

Delhi man arrested for ‘cyber harassment’; QR code of noodles vendor leads to accused: Police | Latest News India

New Delhi, A 22-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly blackmailing and harassing a woman by creating AI-manipulated explicit images of her, a police officer said on Monday. Delhi man arrested for ‘cyber harassment’; QR code of noodles vendor leads to accused: Police Police arrested the accused after they found a QR code of a noodles vendor, who was asked to receive money from the complainant through the code. Nikhil, a resident of Nand Nagari, was arrested by the cyber police of Southwest district, the officer said. “The accused used fabricated images to extort money and threaten the victim, highlighting a disturbing misuse of artificial intelligence in cyber crime,” Deputy Commissioner of Police Surendra Choudhary said. He added that using advanced AI applications, the accused manipulated the complainant’s profile picture on a social media platform to create sexually-explicit images and sent those to her via the platform’s “one-time-view” feature, preventing her from saving the content. The officer said the complainant, a college student, filed a complaint at the Cyber South West police station on January …