Engineer held for Al-generated porn scandal

A 30-year-old mechanical engineer has been arrested in Assam’s Tinsukia district for allegedly using artificial intelligence tools to create and circulate explicit content, falsely depicting a former classmate as part of the adult film industry.

- BY STEPHEN N. R.

The accused, Pratim Bora, was arrested on Saturday night by the Dibrugarh police following a cyber-crime complaint filed by the victim — a married woman of the same age whom he had studied with in college between 2013 and 2017.