A UN fact-finding mission report says Iran increasingly relies on electronic surveillance to enforce mandatory hijab rules, including aerial drones monitoring women in public, facial recognition software at Tehran's Amirkabir University gate and a police app, Nazer, letting the public flag vehicles with uncovered women, which triggers warning texts to owners. Iran's UN mission did not immediately respond.
A man surnamed Ke was sentenced to 10 months in prison and fined 5,000 yuan for using an AI program to write pornographic novels, which he posted on an overseas porn site via circumvention software and sold on another, according to prosecutors in Daye, Hubei. About 760 sales earned him 22,873.95 yuan; the case is billed as China's first.
Tainan's East District chief says a letter signed "Communist Youth League" arrived at his office on the 13th containing an AI face-swapped image of him naked with a naked woman, contact details and a threat of a real-name report on Douyin. He has passed it to investigators; a councillor says New Taipei officials may have received similar letters.
A visual published by France's La France insoumise depicting Cyril Hanouna in a manner deemed antisemitic caused an outcry and was quickly withdrawn. On Friday, LFI MP Paul Vannier acknowledged a "failure", saying it was produced with Elon Musk's Grok despite a years-old party rule against using such software, and wondered why Musk's AI leads to that kind of image.
Cartagena mayor Dumek Turbay Paz says fraudsters have for several weeks impersonated him via fake WhatsApp numbers, contacting legislators, ministers, mayors, businesspeople and citizens nationwide, and, according to senator Angélica Lozano, now call imitating his voice with AI. They ask for money for supposed meetings with him or for contacts; more than one has fallen for it, and police and prosecutors are investigating.
