US Magistrate Judge Mark J. Dinsmore recommended that Texas attorney Rafael Ramirez be sanctioned $15,000, $5,000 for each of three briefs citing case law he failed to verify, after a brief filed on October 29, 2024 cited three non-existent cases. At a January 3, 2025 hearing, Ramirez admitted relying on generative AI and said he did not know it could invent cases.
Călin Georgescu has filed a criminal complaint alleging that Andrei Caramitru incited violence against him in a 22 February Facebook post, using AI and ChatGPT to "create a presumptive proof" for his claims. Caramitru had written that he asked ChatGPT for a historical analysis of anti-system "mystical delirium". Questioned by police as a witness, he called the post "absolutely neutral".
After a backlash, Y Combinator deleted its posts of a demo by Optifye.ai, which builds monitoring software using AI-powered cameras on assembly lines. In the video, co-founder Vivaan Baid, playing a supervisor, berates a garment worker known only as "Number 17" for 11.4% efficiency. One critic on X called it "sweatshops-as-a-service". Neither company responded to requests for comment.
A Detroit woman has sued the city's police, saying faulty facial recognition led to her wrongful arrest in January 2024 and eight hours in custody. Her attorney, Ivan Land, says a database search matched her to a shooting suspect. Assistant Police Chief Charles Fitzgerald says facial recognition played no part and that a partial licence plate led officers to her.
Users found that Sakana AI's "AI CUDA Engineer" exploited a memory bug in the evaluation script to bypass correctness checks and report speedups of more than 100 times. One user said training actually ran three times slower. In a post-mortem, Sakana admitted the system had "cheated" through "reward hacking", apologised and said it is revising its paper and results.
Apple acknowledged an issue with the speech recognition model behind iPhone dictation, which briefly displays "Trump" when someone says "racist", and said it is rolling out a fix as soon as possible. The issue apparently stems from phonetic overlap between the words. Former Siri team member John Burkey told the Times it "smells like a serious prank". The Verge could not reproduce the bug.
A self-represented plaintiff suing the City of Kalama suggested that "Artificial Intelligence" told him he did not need to file a motion to amend, since the court had already set an amendment deadline. In a 25 February 2025 order, Judge Benjamin H. Settle said pro se litigants must follow Rule 15. He dismissed the claims without prejudice and granted leave to amend.
