Aaron Woon Guo Jie, Alan Wei Zhaolun and Li Ming were each charged on Feb 27 with one count of fraud, allegedly lying to server suppliers about where servers would end up. On Mar 3, Minister K Shanmugam said the Dell and Supermicro servers, exported to Malaysia, may contain Nvidia chips, and their final destination is unknown.
Britain's Information Commissioner's Office on Monday launched investigations into how TikTok uses 13–17-year-olds' personal information to suggest content in their feeds, and into Reddit's and Imgur's handling of children's data and age verification. TikTok says its recommender systems protect teens' privacy; Reddit says it plans changes this year; Imgur did not respond.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
A federal judge in the Eastern District of Arkansas ordered plaintiff Diane Nguyen to pay $1,000 within fourteen days for citing nonexistent authority opposing Savage Enterprises's motion to dismiss. Her response blamed artificial intelligence and counsels' heavy workload and personal issues, and apologised; the court called $1,000 the low end of sanctions for similar conduct.
A video account called 'Xiaoqing Rensheng' posted many apparently AI-generated videos of actress Liu Xiaoqing, its most popular drawing 78,000 likes. Liu responded that the picture was her and the voice very like hers, 'but it's not me', noting she uses her own name on every platform. By press time the account could no longer be found.
An esports caster said on Facebook that she received a message containing an AI-generated image made to look like a nude photo of her, complete with her social media handle. She said the image is fake, has cost her sleep, and that the perpetrator remains unknown, and asked the public to report any copies they find.
Activision ran an Instagram ad with apparently AI-generated art for 'Guitar Hero Mobile', featuring malformed guitars and stray legs. Fans found a Geeklab test page for the game whose survey admitted 'This is not a real game, but could be one day!' Similar ads reportedly promoted unannounced Call of Duty and Crash Bandicoot titles.