Florence admitted to using the victim’s personal and professional information –including her home address, date of birth, and family information to instruct the chatbots to impersonate her and engage in sexual dialogue with users, per court filings.
Florence, who is a former friend of the victim, gave a JanitorAI chatbot the victim’s personal information such as employment history, education, hobbies, typical dress, the name of her husband and where he worked, and the date of her mother’s death so that it would divulge this information during interactions with users.
Then he used AI chatbots to lure strangers to her home James Florence, 36, agreed to plead guilty after using victim’s information to guide chatbots in impersonation.
According to court documents, if a user interacting with the chatbot asked the professor where she lived, the chatbot could provide the victim’s true home address followed by: “Why don’t you come over?”.
James Florence, 36, used platforms such as Crushon.ai and JanitorAI, which allow users to design their own chatbots and direct them how to respond to other users during chats, including in sexually suggestive and explicit ways, according to court documents seen by the Guardian.
