Man gets 15 years for extorting women with AI-generated porn videos

An Ohio man, James Strahler II, was sentenced to 15 years for cyberstalking, sextortion, and producing/distributing AI-generated explicit images and child sexual abuse material; prosecutors say he used over 100 AI models and 24 platforms to generate and share hundreds to thousands of images/videos of victims, threatened and extorted victims and their families, and was the first defendant convicted under the 2025 Take It Down Act. The article also cites related convictions for hacking and extortion of women's social-media accounts.