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- In the criminal justice
system,

sexually based offenses

are considered
especially heinous.

In New York City,
the dedicated detectives

who investigate
these vicious felonies

are members of an elite squad

known as
the Special Victims Unit.

These are their stories.

- Wait, yes. I love that one.

- No, Ricky, you can't DoorDash

an order of wings
to the museum.

Come on. Back in.
- Oh!

- Hey, Sofia, Poppy.

Back in your seats
before someone gets hurt.

Now. Thank you.

No, Mom.
I don't wanna study medicine.

I wanna teach.
I wanna work with kids.

You okay?

Rick, you okay?
- Think so.

- Skylar, you good?
Help open the door.

Listen up.
Is anybody too hurt to move?

Okay, good.

We're gonna calmly
exit the bus,

cross the street,
and line up on the sidewalk.

Is that clear?

Let's go. One by one.
Single file. Yes.

- Hey, let's go. Let's go.
Come on. You can do it.

Let me see your hand.

- Ow. Is it bad?

- It's not too deep.
We'll get it looked at.

Just keep applying pressure,
okay?

- Okay.
- Keep holding onto that.

Anyone else with cuts? Bruises?

- Uh, Ms. Reed?
- Yeah?

Penny, what's wrong?

Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Penny. Hey, talk to me.

- I appreciate you humoring
my monthly check-in.

I'm sure you'd rather
spend downtime with the family.

How old is your son?

- Uh, Noah is 15.

And he is--he's a good kid.

Do you--do you have kids?

- Oh, no.

Um, that wasn't
in the cards for me.

- Mm.

- One benefit of working at 1PP

in, say, a newly created deputy
chief position is schedule.

Reasonable hours,
more time with the fam.

- Chief Tynan,

I think I've been
very clear with you about this.

I'm just--
I'm not looking for a desk job.

- I can tell.

You're out in the field more
than any other captain

in the department.

- I'm out in the field because
victims are in the field.

And that is where
I'm the most useful.

- So I'm offering you something
that you'll never want.

- Pretty much.

- Good to know.

Amanda Rollins.

- What about her?

- Well, you're down another
detective with Velasco leaving.

Would you be interested
in reacquiring Rollins?

- I didn't know that
she was looking for a move.

- My sources say
she's shopping around.

Captain,
I'm not trying to play you.

- Sure you are.

- If anything, at most,

I'm trying to get you
to like me.

I know you take care
of your people,

and they are certainly loyal
to you.

I see no downside
to shifting her back to SVU.

Do you?

- Hi.
We're looking for our daughter.

Jesus.

Hi. Our daughter is here.

Penny Wilson.
- Penny Wilson.

- Mr. and Mrs. Wilson?
- Yeah.

- Are you Penny Wilson's
parents?

- Please, what's happening?
- Yeah. Where's our daughter?

- She came in with
severe hemorrhaging

and was rushed into surgery
when she arrived.

We're doing all we can
to stabilize her.

- Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
- Is she gonna be okay?

- Penny suffered a rupture
of her fallopian tube.

Lost almost 2 liters of blood.

Her situation is grave.

Uh, these are
detectives Bruno and Griffin.

They're with NYPD
Special Victims Unit.

- Special victims? Why?

- The hospital called us
due to Penny's age

and the nature of her injuries.

- What are you saying?

- Did you know
your daughter was pregnant?

- Penny never even
mentioned boys,

dating, nothing like that.

- No, no.

If--if she had a boyfriend,
we would have known.

- She's only 13.

- Have you noticed her hanging
out with any new people,

new places?

- Uh--
- Not really.

She has school,
a few extracurriculars.

- So we both--we both work,

so sometimes,
we're not home until dinner.

But no, we trust our daughter.

She's a--she's a good kid.

- None of this makes sense.

- And I promise you

we're doing everything
we can to get you some answers.

- Whatever you need
to help our little girl.

- Okay.

How's she doing?

- Penny's still in surgery.
No change.

If we're lucky,

docs will be able to pull DNA
from the fetal remains.

- Okay, well,
if we get the DNA,

then we can test his
against it.

What was your take
on the father?

- Seemed appropriately upset
and forthcoming.

Not sure if he's our guy.

Obviously,
we can't rule him out.

- Yeah. I have the same read.

Meanwhile, I'll go to Penny's
school and see what I can find.

- I'm confused.

The other detectives cleared
our school of any wrongdoing.

- We're not here about
the bus accident.

We're actually here
about Penny Wilson.

- Yeah, we'd like to speak
with her teachers and friends.

- Oh, well,
it goes without saying

that the thoughts and prayers
of the entire Lansdowne family

are with Ms. Wilson.

But the board of trustees won't
allow police to roam the halls.

It's far too disruptive.

Apologies.

- Okay. Sure.

Yeah, I get that.

Uh, it might
be better for everyone

if we go straight to a judge.

- Yeah, I--I agree.

I mean, if your hands are tied,

then I think
the best course of action

would be to get a warrant.

- Yeah, it's gonna make this
a matter of public interest.

- Yeah, and just so you know,
that means press.

That means questions.

- A lot of attention.

- If your board doesn't
want you--

- These are
exceptional circumstances.

I think they'd understand.

- I think that's a bio report.

It was due this morning,

but I can turn it in
so she doesn't get a zero.

- Great. Uh, thanks.

You're--
you're friends with Penny?

- I guess.

Not really.
She's just in my homeroom.

- Okay, great. Thank you.

- You're police?
- I am.

I'm--I'm here to help Penny.

- Yeah. She's cool.

Always says hi in the hall.

- Nice.

- Not everybody does that.

- Yeah.

- Doesn't deserve the crap
people are saying about her.

- What, uh, what kind of crap
are people saying about her?

- There's this group of guys
in my grade, real dickweeds.

They've been sending
around some really

messed-up photos of Penny.

- It never gets easier,
for what it's worth.

- 13.

I don't even--how the hell
do you guys handle this stuff?

- Don't have kids.

- Okay. What do we got?

- Almost a dozen nude photos of
Penny passed around by students

at the school through texts,
DMs, emails.

Some are selfies.

Others are, uh,
are pictures of her

engaged with, uh,
with an adult male.

- David Huxley, 32,
teaches music at Lansdowne.

He's been there six years,
has a good rep amongst faculty,

popular with the students.
- I bet.

- Not much else on him.
No priors.

Lives off Steinway in Astoria.
- Okay.

- I found one thing
that smells a bit hinky.

Local profile from
his first teaching gig.

School up in Westchester.

Huxley was doing great.

Pulled tenure within
a couple of years.

- So a rising star.
- Right.

Then seven months later,
school releases

a detail-free announcement
that he's resigned.

- Some teachers wait a decade
to make tenure.

Why walk away?

- Who cares?
We got the photos.

Let's arrest the perv.

- Uh, well, look, I--I really
do appreciate your eagerness

to pull him off the street,
but--but first we need

to build a case against him
that will actually stick,

so I will talk
to Penny's parents.

You two follow up
on this Westchester case

and if it is
what it seems to be,

then--then you pick him up.

- The docs are hopeful she'll
wake up in the next day or two,

but, um, they can't be sure.

You mentioned photos.

- I did.

They're gonna be
pretty upsetting to see.

Some of these are
already confirmed to be Penny,

but some of them,
we can't see faces,

so if you just take a look

and tell me if there's anything
that you recognize.

That's her. Penny.

- You're sure?
- The scrunchie on her wrist.

- Wait, that was him,
the teacher?

- Okay, so tell me what
you know about Mr. Huxley.

- He's a music teacher
at the school.

- Mm-hmm.

- Penny was--
freshman year is a big jump,

so we thought
learn an instrument,

make some friends.
We didn't know.

He has this after-school
rock band club.

We signed her up for it.
- Hey, come on.

- Mrs. Wilson.

You did nothing to cause this,
all right?

Predators manipulate oftentimes
no matter what we do.

So was Penny ever
alone with him?

- She wanted to learn guitar.

- Yeah, she took
private lessons with him.

Is he gonna be arrested?

- That's the plan.
- Good.

Because if
I get my hands on him,

I'm gonna kill the guy.

Come here.

- Mr. Huxley, will you
step out with us for a moment?

- Any chance this could wait
till after class?

We're, uh--
We're in mid-lesson here.

- Principal already
sent Ms. Masters down

to cover your class.

- What's all this about?

- You know what this is about,
scumbag.

The rape of a child.
- Wait. What?

- Let's go.
- Wait a minute. Hold on!

This is a mistake!

- Let's go.

- Sit down.

Do you know why we're here,
Mr. Huxley?

- I have no earthly idea.
I swear.

He said something
about raping a child.

That's insane.
- Yeah.

My colleague's new.
He gets a little riled up.

- Yeah, I do.

- Is this about Westchester?

- Inappropriate conduct with
a female student, they said.

- I-I-I knew I was never
gonna be able to escape this.

Look, it was all unfounded.

Hey, I was cleared.

Is she saying I raped her?

- I get it. I'd be upset too.

But there's procedure
we gotta follow

with your side on the record.

- My story hasn't changed.
Okay?

She mistook my kindness
for something else.

She got upset when
I rejected her

and she started
making these false accusations.

But I never touched her.

I never touched anyone,
let alone raped.

- Must be frustrating.

- I just don't understand
how they can keep doing this.

Huh? The school investigated.
They found nothing.

I almost lost my career.

I had to give up tenure
to escape these rumors.

And I changed the way I teach.

Make sure that
nothing can be misinterpreted.

- Right.

Stuff like this, for instance.

- Oh, my God.
What--

What the hell?

W-what are those?

I don't understand
where they came from.

Look, these aren't real, okay?

I don't understand where
they came from,

who made them,
or how you got them,

but they're 100% fake.

- Oh, they're fake?

What about Penny
being pregnant?

Is that fake too?

- She's what?

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

- What about her almost dying,
huh?

Is that fake too?

- Look, I don't know what
you're talking about.

- Oh, it's just another kid
making false accusations?

Is that right?
- No, I swear.

Take my DNA, okay?
Give me a polygraph.

Whatever you want.

- The hell was that in there?

- Oh, I got tired
of you slow-playing him.

- Hey!

Nine out of ten times,

you're not gonna get
a confession, okay?

You're gonna lock them
into a story,

and our job is shutting
the hell up and listening.

- Enough. Guys.

Bruno.

Bruno, what do you think?

- It doesn't feel right.
Something's missing.

- Yeah. A confession.

- I swear to God, Griff.

- Were you paying attention
to Huxley's reaction

to those photos?

- So what?
The creep's a good actor.

- No.

He was genuinely horrified
by them.

- I agree.

So let's--
let's take a breather.

- Oh, you have gotta be
kidding me, boss.

- Okay, we have him
for 24 hours.

He's not going anywhere, okay?

So in the meantime,

have TARU take a closer look
at those photos.

- What about me?
- What about you?

You need to take a walk.

Cool your jets.

- Captain, come on.

- Two captains in my office.

Am I in trouble or something?

- Uh, no.
We're just down a man.

But we should be getting
another detective in soon.

- Cool.

You know,
some people might get nervous,

two captains showing up,
checking their work,

but not me.

Those photos all read real
on first glance.

Heck, even on second.

But once I went through
pixel by pixel,

I noticed
tiny repetitive patterns.

- So they're fakes?
- AI-generated.

Damn good ones too.

I traced the little pervs'
messages step by step,

recreated the path
they spread through.

- Like tracking an illness.

- Bingo.

And I found patient zero,
digital fingerprints and all.

The images were created on
a generative AI site, NU/DAI.

Care to gander where the
IP address tracked back to?

- Lansdowne Academy?

- A-plus, Captain.

- Huxley's DNA is out
for testing,

but with the photo confirmed as
fake and his eagerness to test,

I'd say he's no longer
a primary suspect.

- Well, someone at the school
made those images,

either to victimize Penny
or set up Huxley or both.

- Well, even if the child porn
images are AI-generated,

they're still illegal.

- But the question is
who and why.

Now, we know the website that
the perp used--

NU/DAI, which is based
here in Manhattan.

And that's where you come in.

So I want
to subpoena those logs

so we can use them to find out
who created these images.

- Now, legally, you're not
gonna get a court order

to go on a fishing expedition.

I mean, no judge is gonna go
for such a broad search.

- Even if
they're making child porn?

- The privacy of
the overall user base

trumps the deed
of one bad actor.

Now, you could try
asking the site nicely.

I mean, most businesses
don't wanna be associated

with child pornography.

- Okay, good.

Bruno, Griff, so I want you
to pay the AI company a visit.

Try to be nice, okay?

- Appreciate you taking time
to speak to us, Mr. Boone.

- Of course, of course.

You fellas sure you don't
want something to drink?

Hey, guys, Wolfie.

Slow down around the corners,
bud.

Sorry. Kiddo chaos tonight.

Jane, can you--
- Yeah. Come on.

- Working from home
was a change

after 14 years at Google.

No more on-site spas,
free espressos, nap pods.

Looking back,
getting laid off was, uh,

best thing that
could have happened for me.

Forced me to start
my own company.

- "Nude AI?"

- Uh, actually it's pronounced
"new day," but yeah, that's us.

Or me, I guess.

- From this tiny office
to 3 million users.

Who'd've thunk it, huh?

- A regular
American success story.

- Exactly.

We're on the cutting edge.

We're helping shape
society's creative future.

- Oh, uh, like, uh,
like child pornography.

- That's not what I meant.

- Why include adult materials
at all?

- I provide tools.

I don't control
how they're used.

We can't let a few bad apples
stand in the way of progress.

- How about you help us
catch one of those bad apples?

- What do you mean?

- Let us look
at your user logs.

And we can find the sicko
who's been making nude images

of a minor from
a school computer.

- Sorry, we purge identifying
records from our system

once an image is generated.

AI uses up a lot of data,

so we have to optimize
our storage space.

- Okay, well, you sure it ain't
so your users feel safe

doing whatever the hell
they want?

- I resent that suggestion.

- Yeah.

Who'd've thunk it?

- Look, we're just
trying to help a kid

that was hurt by your tools.

So you decide
that you wanna help, too,

you give us a call.

- Hon, Captain Benson is here.

Penny, you said you'd talk.

- You know, Bridget,
there's a, uh, café on four.

They have soft serve.

Maybe you could get us some?

- Okay.

- I gotta tell you,
I, uh, hate hospitals.

I mean,
I know that's not a hot take.

I think
everyone hates hospitals,

but I think I may hate them...

A little more.

So, uh, I've spent
my fair share of time in them.

I mean, guess that comes
with the job, but, uh--

so I have been shot,

I have been stabbed,
and I have been poisoned twice.

So that wasn't fun.

Penny, have your parents--

have they told you
everything that's going on?

- Penny, I can promise you

that the only thing
that your parents care about

is that you're okay now
and that you're safe.

Hi.

- Hi.

- Would it be okay if I asked
you a couple questions?

- I guess.

- Did you know that
you were pregnant?

Can you tell me
the father's name?

- If I say his name,
you'll arrest him.

- I mean,
if he's older than you, right?

Like a teacher?

- Oh, my God.

No.

Just no.

- No.
So it was somebody your age?

- A 10th grader.

- Okay.

- I thought he was so cool.

I was stupid.

- Meaning you had sex?

- He didn't make me
or anything.

I thought I wanted to,
but I just wish we hadn't.

So I broke up with him.

- Yeah.
And how did he take that?

- Not great.

Pretty mad.

- Mad? Mad enough to hurt you?

Penny,
can you tell me his name?

- Bryce Christopher Cole,

you answer
the detective's questions.

- Fine. Whatever.

Yeah. Me and Penny had sex.

Big deal.

- Well, the big deal is
that Penny got pregnant

and she almost died
from complications.

- So?

- The hell is wrong with you?
- What?

- A girl almost dies
and you just say, "So?"

- Ma, you're not helping!

- You're worse
than your father.

- Mrs. Cole, please.
- I can't with this kid.

I'm done.

He's all yours.

- Do we have your permission
to search Bryce's phone?

- You--you can't do that!

That's, like,
illegal or something!

- The phone I pay for?

Go ahead. Passcode is 6969.

- Okay, maybe I--

I saw the photos,
but I--I didn't make them.

I just thought they were funny.

- What--what--
what about this is funny?

You know, maybe, uh, maybe

we should haul your scrawny ass
to prison for statutory rape.

Would that be funny?

- What?
- Yeah, Bryce!

Real prison
with real criminals.

You wanna guess how
your little attitude will fly

on the inside?

- Mom! Y--

it was Haley.

- Who's Haley?

- She's my girlfriend now.

She's, like,
crazy jealous of Penny.

I--I didn't tell her
to do any of it, I swear.

It was just a joke.

- Why put Mr. Huxley
in the photos?

- He gave her a C on her essay,
brought her GPA down.

She wants to go to Yale.

- Haley, gather your things.

- Haley.

So we hear that you're
very good at making pictures.

- No! I want my dad!
No, no!

I--I said I was sorry!

- I know you did.
- I'm sorry!

I said I was sorry!

- I need you to get in the car.
- No!

- W-watch your head.

Okay.

- It was just a joke!
It was just a joke! Please!

- Bruno is still
talking with the dad.

Principal said there were
two other incidents this week,

kids making AI images
of their classmates.

It's crazy.

How are we supposed
to police something like this?

Keep tossing teens in jail
every time it happens?

- That's a good question,
Griff.

- Look, we've all tracked
the rise in cases

like Penny Wilson's.

Revenge porn, deepfakes,

non-consensual
intimate imagery.

And with the spread of AI,
this is like--

this is like
gasoline on a fire.

- COMPSTAT numbers show
a six-month spike in reports

related to these images.

Extortion, harassment,
stalking.

- Last week, a Bronx
15-year-old got shot for

making AI pics of a neighbor.
- Mm.

- The week before, a senior at
Brooklyn Tech took her own life

when fake nudes were
posted online.

- Yeah, we've seen it.

ADA Price just convicted
a teen girl for murder.

Stabbed some boy to death
over pictures like this.

- Locking up perpetrators
after the fact

doesn't help future victims.

I mean, kids like Penny Wilson,
this teacher, Huxley.

We need to do more.

- Take it you got
something in mind?

- I do.

Going after the AI companies.

Criminally.

- Oh.

- Getting criminal charges
to stick

to these companies
is a tall order.

- Well, she knows that,
but we're about to find out

why she still thinks
that's a good idea.

- Bruno.

- We start with NU/DAI,

same company used to make
images of Penny Wilson.

owned and operated by
Lucas Boone, former tech exec.

- The guy plays
an aw-shucks family man,

but he has no qualms about
making money off this garbage.

- His company is one of
the fastest-rising AI engines.

Over 1.2 million downloads
in the past four months.

- At first glance, it's your
basic AI image generator.

But you pay full access,
though,

and then you get to see
NU/DAI's real business,

letting you create pornographic
images of anyone anywhere.

- So it used to be if you
wanted to make fake nudes,

you needed fancy software,
skill, okay?

Now you can do it
on your phone.

Imagine this is a photo
of your sister or your kid.

Make her cheeks flushed.

Stick her tongue out.

Take her dress off.

- Go ahead.
Show it to 'em.

- Yeah.

Splatter glue on her face.

- Oh, my God.

- This is not innovation.
This is sexual abuse.

Look, I know it's a big swing.

- But it's still a good idea.

We'll take it to Baxter.

- Let's hope he agrees.

- Thank you.

- The district
attorney's office

doesn't make new case law,
Sonny.

That's a job for a legislature.

- Albany takes
a month and a half

to agree on their lunch order.

- Go after the company civilly.

San Francisco went after ten
of these AI outfits

earlier this year.

- And they still
haven't settled.

The fines are not enough, sir.

- There's precedent.
It works.

- Companies that
make quick money,

they make it hand over fist.

Fines are a line item
in their budget.

It's the price of
doing business.

- Laws are always struggling to
catch up with new technology.

But guys like Boone,
they're counting on it.

- Right, they act with
impunity, they destroy lives,

and then they face
no consequences.

So--

If we could just indict them,

then all these other
shady operations,

they're gonna stop
and they're gonna step back.

- Waiting to see how
this plays out.

- Provided
you can convince a jury.

- The public knows what's
going on out there.

They see it in the news.

They see it in their
Facebook feeds.

And they're afraid.

And if we can't protect them by
getting new laws on the books,

then we gotta get creative

enforcing the ones
that already exist.

- Okay.

You got your case.

- Let's go.

- Hello?
- Step aside, Ms. Boone.

We have a warrant
for your husband's arrest.

- What? What's going on?

- Lucas Boone.

- Hey,
you can't just barge in here.

- Dad? Mom?

- Hey, it's okay, bud.
What--what--what are you doing?

- So you are under arrest
for the creation

and dissemination
of child sexual material.

- Hey, where are they--
where are they going?

They can't go up there.

- Come on.

- I'm not a criminal.
This is ridiculous.

- No, bud, this is progress.

- Judge, this is absurd.

Section 230 of the CDA
clearly shields Mr. Boone

and his company from liability.

- AI companies like NU/DAI have
yet to be given 230 protections

under current case law,
Your Honor.

- My client's company
provides a neutral service,

a tool that generates content
of the user's choice.

He's being persecuted by an
overzealous district attorney.

- My opinion of
Mr. Boone has no bearing.

This is entirely about facts.
- Oh, please.

- And in this case,
Your Honor, the defendant was

not only aware of,
but also encouraged

the use of his platform in the
creation of child pornography.

- That is a reach
and you know it, Sonny.

- Your Honor,
if you give a child a gun

and they shoot someone,
you're responsible.

- I admit I'm a bit skeptical
of the People's argument here.

- Thank you, Your Honor.

- But I also have a nephew
who will not shut up

about the unbridled potential
of artificial intelligence.

I am curious
how this would play out.

The defense's motion is denied.

- I couldn't believe it,

all those people seeing me
like that, people in my school.

I mean...

it wasn't my body,
but they don't know that.

It was so embarrassing.

- And how do you feel now?

- I can't sleep.

I can't eat.

I can't even show my face
in public.

They have videos of me
on the internet

calling me a pedophile.

- What impact did this have
on your life?

- We had to change
my phone number,

my email,

delete my socials.

But people still find me.

Call me slut, whore.

- I lost my job.
My career is ruined.

- Because of those pictures.

- All because of his website.

- Because of him.

- No further questions,
Your Honor.

Your witness, Ms. Hamlin.

- Thank you, Judge.

Did my client
create those images?

- No.

- Did another student at your
school create those images?

- Yes.

- Was she a friend of yours?

- Yes.

- And she was arrested
for this crime?

- Answer the question, please.

- Yes, but--
- Thank you.

Nothing further.

- We help everyday people
express themselves,

not just experts with degrees
and fancy tools.

With our AI engine,
anyone can become an artist.

- Could you demonstrate

how the website works
for the courtroom?

- Objection, Your Honor.
Relevance.

- The jury should have
an understanding

of how this technology works,
sir.

- I'll allow it.

- Okay.

Let's say Judge Carpintero

is a secret Swiftie,
but missed the recent tour.

With our generative tools,
he can create new memories

from moments he missed.

Anything is possible.

- Mr. Boone, would you say
that a majority of your users

create images like this
or adult content?

- This, definitely.

Adult content is a very
small part of our user base.

- Do you have safeguards
in place for such material

as adult content?

- Yes.

Our terms of service clearly
prohibits underage users

and anything illegal
as required by law.

Personally, I felt it important
to go an extra step.

All adult functions
require registration

and are locked
behind a paywall.

- Thank you.

Nothing further.

- Mr. Carisi.

- It's cute, huh?

But if we're really gonna
show the jury the full extent

of how your tech works,
then why don't you have it

take Judge Carpintero's
clothes off?

- Mr. Carisi!

- Apologies, Your Honor.
Withdrawn.

Do you enjoy people
using your website

to make nude images, Mr. Boone?

- It's not my place to feel
one way or the other.

I provide a tool.

I don't encourage people
how to use it.

- Is that so?
- Yes.

- Because
I have an advertisement here

that suggests otherwise.

Your Honor, please enter into
the record People's exhibit 27.

This is an online ad
for the defendant's website.

Mr. Boone, if you don't mind,

could you read that
for the jury, please?

- "Why waste money
taking her on a date

when you can use NU/DAI
to see her naked?"

- It feels pretty encouraging
to me.

- Those ads are terrible and
I'm sorry they ever went up.

I had outsourced marketing
to a company overseas.

They were clearly
less than reputable.

- Your excuse is that these ads
were a mistake.

That--that's it?
- That's the truth.

I fired 'em as soon
as I found out.

- Okay, what about
the teenagers, though,

who clicked on this ad

hoping to make nude images
of their classmates?

What about them?

- As I mentioned, our terms
of service clearly prohibits

underage users from--
- Come on, Mr. Boone.

Do you really think
that a few lines

buried in a ten-page
legal document is sufficient

to protect children
from your website?

- My site, like any other site
with adult material,

clearly follows safety measures
required by law.

Look, I'm not a bad guy.

I'm a dad.

I know how difficult it can be.

But...

doesn't it fall on the parent

to know what their kid
is doing online?

- Oh, so you bear
no responsibility

for the damage done
with your technology?

- Just because someone
paints an offensive picture,

it doesn't mean
you arrest the paintbrush.

- Nothing further, Your Honor.

- Carisi.

- Did you go home last night?

- Uh, kinda? Not really.

I was reading through
the case files.

- You pulled an all-nighter?
- I'm fine. I feel great.

More importantly,
I found something,

a second name
on the original draft

of NU/DAI's articles
of incorporation.

- You're kidding me. Who?

- Samit Junger, engineer.
Old co-worker of Boone's.

They were listed as co-founders

when the application was
submitted and then amended it

two months later,
removing Junger's name,

so he's not on
the official document.

- You think they had
a falling out?

- Wouldn't be the first time

someone got screwed
out of a rising tech company.

Maybe he's sour enough
to help us.

- Here. Take this with you.

You need something
in your stomach.

Listen, if you're gonna speak
to a potential witness,

make sure to bring somebody
from SVU with you, okay?

- Way ahead of you.

- Good work.

- Yeah.

Lucas and I built the company's
first AI model together.

- How come
you decided to leave?

- I didn't.
He bought me out.

- Must be hard,

to see a company
that you helped build

become successful
after you've left.

- Not really.

His sort of success
doesn't interest me.

- Why not?

- Sorry. Can't talk about it.

- Boone made you sign an NDA?

- Yep.

And I can't afford
to be sued into oblivion.

- I don't think
it'll come to that.

- You don't think?

- NDAs can't be enforced
if they hide illegal activity.

- Samit, kids are being hurt

by the technology
that you helped create.

Please talk to us.

- Our original idea was
a novelty app.

Aging photos up and down.

You know, kids into adults,
adults into kids.

- At what point
did that change?

- Once the model started
working better than expected,

Lucas realized he could pivot
to something more profitable.

- What was that?

- Adult content. Nudes.

- And did you agree
with his choice?

- No.

I knew our tech would
be way too easy to abuse.

The engine was trained
on millions of public images,

images of real people,
real kids.

- Could you explain
that further, please?

- AI swallows information,
mixes it together,

and then spits it back out.

It can't actually
think for itself.

So if you take a model
trained on images of kids,

millions of them, and then
train it on nude pictures,

it's gonna mix them together.

- You mean
create child pornography?

- Yeah.

An algorithm
can't tell the difference

between an 18-year-old
or a 15-year-old.

- And you raised this
with Mr. Boone?

- I did.
- And what happened?

- Lucas fired me.

He owns a majority
of the stake in the company.

- People's exhibit 32,
Your Honor.

These are email exchanges

between Mr. Junger and the
defendant raising concerns

about potential misuse
of NU/DAI's model.

Now, Mr. Junger,
we received 270 gigs of records

from NU/DAI, and yet,
these emails were missing.

Do you have any idea why?

- They were supposed
to be destroyed.

- What made you
decide to keep them?

- Figured we'd all
be here one day.

- On the first count,

disseminating indecent
materials to minors

in the second degree,
how do you find?

- We find the defendant guilty.

- Yes.

- On the second count,

promoting a sexual performance
by a child, how do you find?

- We find the defendant guilty.

- Ladies and gentlemen,
I thank you for your service.

The jury is dismissed.

Would the prosecution,
defendant, and counsel

please sit?

I have something to say.

Mr. Carisi, I applaud your team
on a compelling case.

Considering the emotions
around this matter,

the jury's findings
are understandable.

However, I do not believe
the laws as written

support the decision.

Though I find Boone's
business practices despicable,

negligent,
and lacking in basic decency,

these failings
are not criminal

and they do not apply
under our current statutes.

To convict him as if they did,
though satisfying,

is a miscarriage of justice,

and therefore,
I am setting the verdict aside.

- What?

- I don't disagree with
your intent in this case.

But if you wish
to change the laws,

you will need to go to Albany,
not my courtroom.

Defendant is free to go.

Case is dismissed.

- What the hell just happened?

- Big swings don't always
make it out of the park, CJ.

- Can we do something?

- We lost, yeah.

But we also won because
with Samit's testimony,

Boone's gonna be exposed
to a wave of civil cases.

And with any luck,

he's gonna be out of business
in a couple weeks.

- Yeah.

Too bad ten more companies
just like his

got incorporated today.

- Look, I'm just saying that

I may or may not have
taken ChatGPT out for a spin

once or twice.

- Okay. To do what, exactly?

- Therapy.

- Terry, please tell me that
you're joking right now.

- They gave her a nice voice.
She's easy to talk to.

- Wow.

- Okay, I will give you
the phone number

of a very nice human therapist
because clearly, you need it.

- Amanda.

- Hello, everyone.

- Hey, kid,
come get a drink with us.

- Uh, I got paperwork.

- Curry's buying.

- I am?

Okay.

- I'm sorry for
the radio silence.

I've been weighing my options.

- So Tynan
is not messing with me?

You--
you're actually leaving Intel?

- Well, she overhauled it
beyond recognition.

She put her own guy in there,
moved my boss to the Bronx.

- You called it.
She changed everything.

- Mm.

- Amanda,
I don't have to tell you

that there's always
a spot here for you.

- You know,
I'd love to come back here.

But playing a pawn in whatever
game Tynan is playing with you,

it doesn't sit right.

- Right.
And what's the alternative?

- Intel's off the table.

And could go back to teaching.
Maybe.

Look, is this an offer

that's gonna bite me in the ass
down the line?

Probably.

I mean, she's after something.
I just don't know what.

- Mm.

- But personally,
it sure would be nice

to have somebody in here
that I could trust.

- Unlike Griffin?

- He's fine.

You know, he's--might even
be here for the right reasons.

I don't know,
but he's ambitious.

- Mm.
- Which could be worse.

- Well...

I guess I'll be keeping
a close eye on him around here.

All right.

See you in the morning, boss.