Courts are now facing a growing threat: AI-generated deepfakes.
Melissa Sims said her ex-boyfriend created fake AI-generated texts that put her behind bars.
“It was horrific,” she said.
Sims said she spent two days of hell in a Florida jail.
“It’s like you see in the movies ‘Orange is the New Black’,” she said. “I got put into like basically a general population.”
Her story made headlines in Florida.
Sims and her boyfriend had recently moved there from Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
She said her nightmare began in November 2024 after she called the police during an argument with her boyfriend, when she said he allegedly ransacked her home.
“Next thing I know, I’m looking at him and he’s slapping himself in the face,” she said.
She said he also allegedly scratched himself. When police arrived, they arrested her for battery.
As part of her bond, the judge ordered Sims to stay away from her boyfriend and not speak to him.
Fast forward several months, and she said her boyfriend created an AI-generated text that called him names and made disparaging comments.
Hellbound and Down 