AI Crimes

Metairie AI Crimes Lawyer

AI crime refers to the use of Artificial Intelligence to commit fraud, embezzlement, extortion, and other crimes on a large and complex scale. If a Louisiana prosecutor charges you with an AI crime, contact a Metairie AI crimes lawyer at The Bradley Law Firm immediately.

If you face AI crime charges, investigators may closely scrutinize your emails, texts, and social media accounts. The police may search your phone and computers. If an AI crime involves a large sum of money or victimizes a minor, a prosecutor may be particularly aggressive.

Contact The Bradley Law Firm to understand your options and take a proactive approach to addressing the charges against you.

When Should You Contact an Attorney?

You could face an AI-related crime charge due to a simple misunderstanding or mistake, even if you had no criminal intent. You could also be falsely accused or framed for an AI crime. But to win a conviction, a prosecutor must prove your guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

In an AI crime case, proving your guilt may not be easy. If the state charges you with an AI-related crime, contact a Metairie AI crimes attorney immediately. Your attorney will cast doubt on the state’s case and seek to have the charges dropped or the case dismissed.

If charges cannot be dropped and the case cannot be dismissed, an attorney at the Bradley Law Firm can defend you at trial and ask a jury to acquit you. But if the case against you is powerful and persuasive, your attorney may negotiate for a plea deal you can live with.

What Are the Most Common AI Crimes?

These are the most common criminal uses of Artificial Intelligence:

  1. Criminals use AI voice and image cloning or “deepfakes” to commit fraud or blackmail.
  2. AI-driven phishing attacks deceive victims into disclosing personal information.
  3. AI-based cyberattacks can disrupt, shut down, or destroy computer systems.
  4. Criminals can also use AI to steal intellectual property.

How Do Criminals Use Deepfakes?

Deepfakes are hyper-realistic, AI-generated or manipulated images, audio, or video that can convincingly impersonate a family member or co-worker. Criminals are weaponizing AI deepfake technology to commit fraud and extortion.

Criminals can use AI to clone a voice or image and use these deepfakes to contact employees or loved ones, requesting an urgent wire transfer, a ransom payment, or access to sensitive company data. Voices and faces appear genuine, so many are deceived.

Criminals also use deepfake technology to generate nonconsensual intimate images or videos of individuals, which are then used for extortion (blackmail) or to cause reputational damage.

How Do AI-Driven Phishing Scams Work?

Older phishing emails often included obvious spelling and grammatical errors. AI Large Language Models (LLMs) now create perfectly written, personalized, and believable emails, text messages, and chat interactions on a massive scale.

Criminals now use AI Large Language Models to manipulate individuals into giving up confidential personal information or money.

AI-powered chatbots can sustain real-time, persuasive conversations with targets, sometimes posing as colleagues or customer support agents, to guide victims through a process that ends in revealing sensitive information or transferring funds.

How Do AI-Based Cyberattacks and Malware Work?

AI can generate malicious software that continuously changes its code or signature in real-time. The malware bypasses security defenses that recognize only fixed code patterns. In ransomware attacks, AI can quickly identify the most valuable data to steal.

AI can rapidly scan and analyze software code and system application programming interfaces to find security flaws or vulnerabilities much faster than a human hacker could, enabling swift and targeted infiltration.

How Does AI Enable Intellectual Property Theft?

Many generative AI models (for text, images, or music) operate on massive datasets scraped from the internet, including billions of copyrighted works (such as articles, photos, and book excerpts), usually without the consent or compensation of the original creators.

Some AI companies argue that AI outputs have legal protection under “Fair Use” laws to mitigate theft. Still, there’s a risk that an AI-generated work could be too similar to a copyrighted original, leading to lawsuits and claims of direct infringement.

How Will The Bradley Law Firm Help?

If you are facing a charge for an AI crime in or near Metairie or New Orleans, a Metairie AI crimes lawyer at The Bradley Law Firm will:

  1. launch an immediate, independent investigation
  2. negotiate with the prosecutor on your behalf
  3. ensure the court treats you fairly
  4. defend you before a jury if your AI case goes to trial

As investigators search the internet for evidence of AI crimes, the internet also provides exculpatory evidence to criminal defense attorneys. Emails, social media sites, and an examination of someone’s hard drive can often establish either innocence or guilt.

How Does Louisiana Handle AI Crimes?

Louisiana has enacted several laws specifically addressing the harm caused by Artificial Intelligence, including the Unlawful Dissemination or Sale of Images Created by Artificial Intelligence.

Maliciously disseminating or selling a video or image made with AI that shows a recognizable person in a state of undress or nude, with the intent to coerce, harass, or intimidate, is a crime. A first conviction is punishable with up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $750.

For other offenses where AI is the tool or means of commission, such as fraud, tampering, or impersonation, prosecutors rely on Louisiana’s comprehensive computer-related crime statutes. Criminal charges that could apply to AI misuse include:

  1. Computer fraud: Accessing a computer system with the intent to defraud or obtain money, services, or property by false or fraudulent means. A conviction is punishable with up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.
  2. Computer tampering: Unauthorized access, copying, or introducing electronic information into a computer with the intent to damage or destroy the computer or its data. A conviction is punishable with jail or prison time and a fine of $500 to $10,000.
  3. Online impersonation: Intentionally impersonating someone without consent, if the intent is to harm, intimidate, threaten, or defraud that person or another victim, is punishable upon conviction with a ten-day-to-six-month jail term and a fine of $250 to $1,000.

Why Should You Choose The Bradley Law Firm?

If the police have arrested you and you’re a defendant facing an AI-related criminal prosecution, now or in the future, a Metairie AI crimes attorney at The Bradley Law Firm will represent you, fight for your rights, and bring your case to its best possible outcome.

At The Bradley Law Firm, Louisiana criminal defense attorney Jarred Bradley leads a team that has built a reputation for legal excellence and extraordinary service to clients.If you are charged with any AI-related offense in or near New Orleans or Jefferson Parish, promptly schedule a free first legal consultation by calling an experienced criminal defense lawyer at 504-336-1717.