The court heard that Brooks and the woman had been friends at high school and remained in contact on social media.<\/p>\n
Prior to the crime, the first offender obtained a software application which altered images using AI.<\/p>\n
Prosecutor Katie Malcolm said: “Brooks took two images from the woman’s Instagram account which she uploaded online in which she was fully clothed.<\/p>\n
“Brooks then altered the images so that they showed the woman to be in a state of undress.<\/p>\n
“One was a full length image and the other was from the waist up.<\/p>\n
“Brooks then sent the images to two friends.”<\/p>\n
The hearing was told that the woman “knew nothing” about the images.<\/p>\n
In February last year she was asked by one of Brooks’ friends about her knowledge of the images, which were shown to her.<\/p>\n
Ms Malcolm added: “She was immediately embarrassed and humiliated.<\/p>\n
“She confirmed that the images were lifelike and the matter was reported to the police.”<\/p>\n
Brooks was arrested and told officers: “It was really just pettiness on the part of people – I know I shouldn’t have done that, I shouldn’t have done Photoshop.”<\/p>\n
He said that one of his friends requested the images while the other did not.<\/p>\n
Brooks said that he carried out the crime to show what the software did.<\/p>\n
Gerry Devaney, defending, told the court that Brooks fell out with one of his friends after the images had been sent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The court heard that Brooks and the woman had been friends at high school and remained in contact…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-83933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}