The Hangzhou Internet Court found an unnamed AI platform liable for contributory copyright infringement after users trained Ultraman LoRA models on it and generated closely resembling images. It ordered the platform to stop and pay 30,000 RMB, saying it profited from the service, the infringement was obvious, and it failed to take preventive measures it could have taken.
According to Vice Minister Jhonny Aguilera, a seven-member gang operating from San Roque prison in Chuquisaca used an AI clone of Education Minister Omar Véliz's voice to call applicants for fake ministry jobs, demanding an initial Bs 3,500. Aguilera says there were at least 19 victims and the four people in preventive detention had collected at least Bs 5 million.
On February 10 the Georgian Young Lawyers Association urged the Personal Data Protection Service to investigate the Interior Ministry's use of facial recognition cameras, after a ministry unit reportedly bought 30 of them. GYLA says use rose sharply after protests from November 28 and that authorities relied almost exclusively on facial recognition images as evidence in court cases.
A letter with 3,000 signatures, including from artists Karla Ortiz and Kelly McKernan, urges Christie's to cancel its Augmented Intelligence auction, saying many works used AI models "trained on copyrighted work without a licence". Christie's says that in most cases the AI was trained on the artists' "own inputs", and Refik Anadol calls the claim about his piece "factually incorrect".
