India, April 8 -- Melania Trump has taken to X to mark the first conviction under the Take It Down Act. An Upper Arlington man became the first in the nation to be convicted under a 2025 federal law for using AI-generated, sexually explicit images of women to intimidate and harass them, the US Attorney's Office in Columbus said, according to The Columbus Dispatch.

On April 7, 37-year-old James Strahler pleaded guilty in the US District Court in Columbus to cyberstalking, producing obscene visual representations of child sexual abuse and publication of digital forgeries. He will be sentenced at a later date.

Court records showed that Strahler had more than 24 AI platforms and 100 AI web-based models installed or downloaded on his phone. ...