[Man Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for Using AI to Accumulate Nearly 300,000 Account Points and Reselling Computing Power Through a Transfer Station] Beating AI News reports that a man in Shanghai used AI to write scripts to register nearly 300,000 free accounts, accumulating new user points offered by an AI platform. He then found the platform's unpublished API and connected the AI drawing and video generation services available to these accounts to his self-built transfer station, selling them at low prices. Customers paid him, but actually used the original platform's paid computing power. After the platform detected the anomaly, it added IP registration restrictions and electronic signature verification measures. However, he continued to use AI to write scripts to bypass these restrictions and even automatically forged API signatures. Until his arrest in March of this year, he had illegally accessed the API over 290,000 times, earning over 34,000 yuan by reselling AI generation services. The man argued that the API was visible in the browser and not encrypted, so he thought it could be used freely. However, the prosecution pointed out that the platform had never publicly released its paid API, and he had previously had his accounts banned in bulk for violations, yet he continued to bypass the protection measures knowingly without authorization. Ultimately, the Xuhui District Court of Shanghai sentenced him to three years in prison, suspended for three years, and fined him 40,000 yuan for illegally obtaining data from a computer information system. [Original Link]