YouTube demonetised channels posting AI-generated fake movie trailers, including Screen Culture, with 1.4 million subscribers and more than 1,800 videos, after an investigation showed studios such as Warner Bros. Discovery were taking ad revenue from such videos instead of seeking removal. One AI Superman trailer was aired as real by French national television; KH Studio's founder denied intending to mislead viewers.
At Microsoft's 50th-anniversary celebration, programmer Ibtihal Abu al-Saad interrupted AI chief Mustafa Suleyman, calling the company "war profiteers" with hands "stained with Palestinian blood" and saying it supplies Israel with AI software used against Palestinians in Gaza. Suleyman replied "I heard your protest, thank you" before she was removed; Hamas later praised her stand.
Telangana officials told Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Saturday that Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy, Dhruv Rathee and actors John Abraham, Dia Mirza and Raveena Tandon were among those who shared AI-generated misinformation about the Kancha Gachibowli lands. Officials say an image of peacocks and deer before earthmovers was AI-generated. Reddy ordered officials to approach courts for an inquiry into the fakes' origins.
A fake interview in which singer Andreas Gabalier appears to answer ORF's questions in English about getting rich through crypto trading is circulating online, its transcript posted on a site closely resembling orf.at, Heute reports, citing the Kleine Zeitung. The scam relies on voice cloning; Armin Assinger, Mirjam Weichselbraun and Alexander Van der Bellen have also been targeted.
A woman wired $1,000 via Western Union and another $1,000 via MoneyGram to Mexico after a caller claimed to be holding her adult daughter, whose voice she believed she heard sobbing on the line; the daughter was safe at home. The FBI has warned criminals increasingly use generative AI to mimic loved ones' voices; police said prosecution was unlikely.
AAP leader Yuvrajsinh Jadeja has released 24 videos he says show cheating at the Experimental College of Education in Prantij during Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University exams, alleging students used AI on mobile phones to write answers and administrators sent papers to students in advance via WhatsApp. He has demanded police action and release of CCTV footage.
Amazon removed Edible Wild Mushrooms of Saskatchewan, a self-published book by Victor Howard, after CBC contacted it. Forager Donovan Thiesson said it is missing Chapter 7, has wrong photos and "great inaccuracies" about edibility; a sample scored 100 per cent on Originality.ai's AI detector. Amazon allows AI-generated books if sellers disclose it.
Slovene texts at the Andy Warhol exhibition Beyond Borders in Gorizia's Attems Petzenstein palace, part of the European Capital of Culture, are very poor and were made with machine tools, critics warn. The Slovenian Proofreaders' Association called it a "fiasco"; GO! 2025 says the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region prepared the show entirely.
