In its copyright suit against OpenAI, ANI told the Delhi High Court that ChatGPT takes content from its website and scrapes content shared with subscribers, Bar and Bench reported. OpenAI's counsel Amit Sibal reportedly argued that the same facts narrated by others carry no copyright and that ChatGPT summarises in its own words and points users to sources; the matter returns on March 28.
The FTC has sued Click Profit and co-founders Craig Emslie and Patrick McGeoghean, alleging they charged consumers $45,000 to $75,000 for online stores promoted with a claimed $5 million AI "super computer" and brand partnerships that, the complaint says, do not exist. Amazon suspended or terminated about 95% of the stores, the FTC alleged.
Federal prosecutors on March 3 appealed a ruling by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson that the First Amendment protects private possession of "virtual child pornography" at home, which threw out one charge against Steven Anderegg. Prosecutors allege he used Stable Diffusion to create over 13,000 images; charges of production, distribution and transferring obscene matter to a minor under 16 remain.
Hungary's parliament voted 136 to 27 on Tuesday to ban Pride events and allow authorities to use facial recognition software to identify attendees, who could face fines of up to 200,000 forints (£425). Amnesty International called the law a "full-frontal attack" on LGBTQ+ people; Budapest Pride organisers said they plan to march anyway.
Eleven websites that create and spread deepfake nudes have shut down since the San Francisco City Attorney's Office filed a case against them last August, according to Chief Deputy City Attorney Yvonne Meré. The case, brought by her office and City Attorney David Chiu under California's Unfair Competition Law, remains active; Meré said the sites drew hundreds of millions of hits in a year.
A Kentucky teenager died by suicide after extortionists threatened to expose explicit images of him that his parents say were entirely AI-generated, demanding $3,000. According to the parents, the FBI told them he was likely the target of a sextortion scheme. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has since signed Senate Bill 73, making sextortion a felony in the state.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras dismissed Riyan Williams's suit against Capital One with prejudice on March 18, 2025, noting his brief cited cases that do not exist, such as "Pettway v. American Savings & Loan Association," and that he may have relied on the legal AI tool CoCounsel. The judge strongly warned Williams against filing fabricated citations in any court.
AIXBT, an AI crypto market commentary agent built on Virtuals Protocol, sent about 55 ETH, roughly $100,000, to an attacker on Tuesday after two "malicious replies," according to its overseer 0rxbt, who called it a "dashboard access hack" and "not a result of agent manipulation." The team paused the data dashboard, swapped servers and migrated keys.
Gresik police, working with Polda Metro Jaya, arrested a man identified as WD in Tangerang after a woman reported that her photo had been edited with AI to appear nude and then spread. Police said the arrest followed the uncovering of a trade in adult videos; his motive and any profits remain under examination.
A homemaker in Hyderabad transferred ₹1.97 lakh after a WhatsApp message from a relative's number requested money and a call to that number produced a voice saying "yes." Police said the scammers could have used AI-generated voice technology; the cybercrime wing booked a case and issued an advisory on scams impersonating family members.
