Italy's Democratic party, with the Greens and Left Alliance, has complained to communications regulator Agcom about dozens of apparently AI-generated images on Matteo Salvini's League channels, often showing men of colour attacking women or police, calling them racist and deceptive. A League spokesperson confirmed "some of the pictures" were "generated digitally" but said each post is based on true reports from Italian newspapers.
Actress Zhang Xinyu says a brand used AI to copy her voice in unauthorised, fabricated advertising videos, including ads for weight-loss pills. She said she has never recommended any diet pills and vowed to pursue the matter "to the end"; replying to internet users who said they had seen the ads, she warned that inattentive viewers would be fooled.
Researchers at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab and Finnish firm CheckFirst say the Pravda network, fraudulent news portals launched by Russia in 2014 and targeting more than eighty countries and regions, is posing as authoritative sources on Wikipedia and as reliable outlets cited by popular large language models, exposing chatbot users to pro-Kremlin, anti-Ukrainian and anti-Western messaging.
A scammer posing as rapper Fat Joe offered an aspiring artist a radio submission and a possible signing, then asked for money to play the songs she had uploaded to a portal. She paid nothing, and Fat Joe had posted a warning about the scam; the Better Business Bureau says AI makes such impersonations harder to spot.
A Pakistani TikTok creator says a leaked intimate video circulating online is fake and AI-generated, made to damage her reputation, while also blaming her ex-boyfriend for leaking it. She says she will file a complaint with the FIA Cyber Crime Wing; the report says it is not yet clear whether the video is fabricated.
Golden Bell-winning actress Zhu Zhiying apologised for not thinking it through after putting a set of ChatGPT-generated, Studio Ghibli-style stickers on sale and facing questions over possible infringement. She said she had deleted the posts and asked the platform to delist the stickers, which she says made "no profit", and that she had only wanted to share them.
