Luke A. Teipel, 22, of Dallastown faces more than 30 felony counts of possessing child sexual abuse material, Pennsylvania's attorney general announced on Monday. Agents say a phone found at his home held 29 AI-generated files, plus real images. Prosecutors call it the first case under a law passed last year banning AI images that appear to "authentically depict" child abuse.
Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department has arrested four men and women in their 20s to 50s on suspicion of selling, through online auctions, posters of obscene images made with generative AI and depicting nude adult women who do not exist. The offence of distributing obscene material is considered to cover AI-made images, making this Japan's first such case.
Israel's Channel 14 aired about 20 seconds of an AI-generated video of former defence minister Gallant saying the US would fail to defeat the Houthis, captioned as published by an Iranian channel, before its anchor apologised, calling it AI putting words in his mouth. The channel says it aired without prior checking, against procedure, and that it is conducting an inquiry.
More than 25 Facebook accounts run ads linking to deepfake news reports featuring Mark Carney, Elon Musk and fake CBC and CTV anchors, including one in which a deepfake Musk accuses Carney of lying about a non-existent passive income scheme. Some accounts are managed by people in Indonesia and the United States; an election-monitoring network has raised its threat level.
Crosswalk voice-over systems at intersections in Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Redwood City were tampered with to play satirical clips impersonating Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, mocking tech culture and AI, according to a Palo Alto city spokesperson; as many as 12 downtown Palo Alto intersections were affected. Officials removed tampered devices and disabled the systems; who did it remains unclear.
Who did it: HUMAN Anti-Deception Coordination Centre(ADCC)
A Hong Kong anti-scam alert warns that scammers posing as investment experts lured people into WhatsApp groups about investing with artificial intelligence, then onto a fraudulent trading app called Better-GC showing fabricated profits. Victims who tried to withdraw faced delays and demands for hefty handling fees, losing millions of Hong Kong dollars.
A Facebook video viewed over 98,000 times shows actor Taiwo Ajai-Lycett crediting a hypertension treatment developed by doctor and influencer Chinonso Egemba, known as Aproko Doctor, with her recovery after a stroke. Africa Check says the video is AI-generated, with machine-sounding voices out of sync, and that no such cure exists.
