Consumer Reports assessed voice-cloning products from six companies and found a majority lacked meaningful safeguards against fraud or misuse. Researchers easily cloned voices from publicly available audio on ElevenLabs, Speechify, PlayHT and Lovo, which required only a checkbox or similar self-attestation of the legal right to clone. Descript and Resemble AI made non-consensual cloning harder.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
An Alameda County Superior Court judge found a reply brief signed by Christina Le of the Clarkson Law Firm attributed nonexistent quotations to two California cases; Le said she used a "tool." On March 10, 2025 the court denied class certification over counsel's competence, ordered counsel to give plaintiffs the order, and said the three firms would get no fees.
Douyin said a small number of unqualified accounts claimed AI tools could deliver "precise" stock forecasts and high returns, or sold AI stock-trading courses, some luring users to third-party platforms and even defrauding them. The platform said it banned accounts, removed videos, revoked livestream and monetisation rights, and would report serious cases to police.
A video posted on X on March 4, 2025 paired Marco Rubio's real CNN interview with what sounds like his voice swearing to convince Elon Musk to cut Ukraine's army off Starlink. CNN said on March 7 the clip was "completely manipulated" and "did not air"; a University at Buffalo forensic analysis found the audio "very likely AI-generated."
A three-minute Facebook video bearing an RTÉ News logo shows an AI-generated likeness of Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary promising software to "predict market trends" and earn €500 a day. The Journal found it fake, noting the likeness's accent wanders between American, English and occasionally Irish, and the linked website now returns a 404 error.
