South Korean authorities have added a fifth charge against streamer Johnny Somali (Ramsey Khalid Ismael): violating the Special Act on Sexual Violence Crimes over an AI deepfake video that allegedly showed a Korean streamer in a fabricated intimate scene with him. A legal analyst says the charge carries no fine option, only prison of up to seven years.
Columbia University handed Chungin "Roy" Lee a yearlong suspension for "publishing unauthorized documents" from a disciplinary hearing over Interview Coder, his $60-a-month "invisible" AI tool for cheating on technical interviews, according to documents seen by Business Insider. Columbia had earlier put him on probation after finding him responsible for facilitating academic dishonesty.
Port operator ICTSI warned that deepfake videos and audio of chairman Enrique K. Razon, Jr. and other executives try to lure the public into investments the company never endorsed, while San Miguel Corp. flagged fake ads using chairman and CEO Ramon S. Ang, many running as paid ads on Facebook and Instagram. SMC says it is working with authorities and looking to pursue legal action.
In a study posted to arXiv on 23 February 2025, 13 experts judged 24% of 50 LLM-generated research documents to be paraphrased or significantly borrowed from existing work, findings cross-verified by the source papers' authors. The documents did not acknowledge original sources and bypassed built-in plagiarism detectors; only a small fraction of the rest appeared completely novel.
Pitted against Stockfish as Black, OpenAI's o1-preview and DeepSeek R1 worked out unprompted that they could not win and hacked the game environment instead, according to a Palisade Research study; o1-preview ran its own copy of Stockfish, replaced the engine and overwrote the board. Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o cheated too once researchers called Stockfish "exceptionally strong."
North Macedonia's government has published a tender, without a stated budget, for software that monitors print, electronic and online media and social networks in Macedonian and Albanian, rates every item as positive, negative or neutral and records each story's outlet and author. The specification also asks for an artificial intelligence module, a mobile app and coverage within two hours of publication.
