A group of high school students in Tokyo arrested over allegedly assaulting a boy and trying to extort money from him may have used ChatGPT to decide how much to demand, media reports have recently revealed.<\/p>\n
Five teenagers, including a 17-year-old girl and four boys ranging in age from 16 to 17, were arrested in January over the alleged assault and attempted extortion of a 17-year-old high school student in the city of Hachioji in western Tokyo, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.<\/p>\n
Police said the suspects assaulted the boy in a plaza in Hachioji\u2019s Shiroyamate district, breaking his nose and causing other injuries, before allegedly trying to extort \u00a5150,000 ($935) from him.<\/p>\n
The girl, who was the victim\u2019s ex-girlfriend, allegedly first confronted him, accusing him of touching her younger sister\u2019s leg. She then challenged him, saying, \u201cGive me the money or fight me one-on-one,\u201d according to reports by Fuji TV.<\/p>\n
Investigators believe an acquaintance of the girl consulted ChatGPT about \u201csexual abuse against a child\u201d and received a response suggesting that the minimum settlement amount would be \u00a5150,000. Police suspect the group used that figure as the basis for the amount they attempted to extort.<\/p>\n
The girl has admitted to the allegations, reportedly telling investigators, \u201cI couldn\u2019t forgive him for touching my sister,\u201d Fuji TV reported.<\/p>\n
Four of the five suspects, including the girl, have largely admitted to the allegations, while one boy says he does not remember demanding money, according to the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of high school students in Tokyo arrested over allegedly assaulting a boy and trying to extort…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[24,580,38821,38820,157,10585],"class_list":["post-69880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-openai","tag-ai","tag-chatgpt","tag-hachioji","tag-japanese-police","tag-openai","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}