The daily rap sheet of the machine age.
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A woman in the United Kingdom was sent videos showing a Miami Beach man's face, with a dubbed voice resembling the man's saying her name, by someone she believed was him; she said they had talked for a year and came to Miami to meet. The pair concluded the videos appear AI-generated, and the suspected scammer's number seems disconnected, Local 10 News reports.
Original report: Apparent AI videos of Miami Beach man used to woo UK woman
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin sued Texas-based RealPage and 10 of the state's largest landlords, alleging they used its pricing software to exchange sensitive, non-public information, align rents and make tens of thousands of residents overpay. RealPage called the claims devoid of merit and said his office never engaged with it before filing.
Original report: New Jersey sues RealPage and 10 landlords over rent software
Pennsylvania State Police corporal Stephen Kamnik, 38, was charged with child pornography, unlawful use of a computer and related crimes. Investigators say he used his department-issued computer to create 3,000 deepfake pornographic images of women he met on the job, some based on images of a 12-year-old girl, using driver's license photos and mug shots.
Original report: Pennsylvania trooper charged over deepfake porn made on work computer
Adam Erdman, 34, of Bethlehem was charged with three counts of child sexual abuse material and one of criminal use of a communications facility. The Lehigh County District Attorney alleges he used artificial intelligence photo editing software to make vacation photos of two children appear naked. He was arraigned April 17 and is free on $100,000 bail.
Original report: Bethlehem man among first charged under Pennsylvania AI abuse-image law
Federal judge J. Randal Hall dismissed a pro se plaintiff's suit against Walmart for lack of jurisdiction and as a Rule 11 sanction, finding her motion to disqualify opposing counsel cited nonexistent cases in bad faith. She conceded the caselaw was fake but never explained its origin, offering twelve pages on defense counsel's supposed procedural lapses instead.
Original report: Walmart suit tossed, partly as sanction for fake case citations
Shanghai police say three people ran a studio controlling more than 500 self-media accounts, prompting AI software to generate over 10,000 false posts a day, more than 300,000 in all, earning over 40,000 yuan. One story described the death of a former Huashan Hospital director who, police found, never existed. The three face criminal measures.
Original report: Shanghai police detain three over AI-generated rumor mill
The Office of the Prime Minister of the Bahamas said a video circulating online purporting to show Prime Minister Philip Davis promoting an investment scheme is fake and generated using AI. The office said it did not produce, authorise or endorse the video and has referred the matter to the Royal Bahamas Police Force.
Original report: Bahamas PM's investment pitch video is AI fake, office says
Daniel Joseph Broadway, 53, of Charlotte pleaded guilty on April 23, 2025 to possessing and accessing child pornography involving prepubescent minors and possessing obscene visual representations of child sexual abuse. Police said most of the thousands of photos and videos found at his December 2023 arrest were AI-generated. Each charge carries up to 20 years; no sentencing date was set.
Original report: Charlotte man pleads guilty to possessing AI-generated child abuse images
The Better Business Bureau's National Advertising Division found Apple's AI advertising misled consumers about the technology's readiness and recommended removing the 'Available now' label from its Apple Intelligence page, after Apple disclosed delays to promised Siri features. Apple added text saying the delayed Siri updates are in development and will arrive in future software updates, 9to5Mac reported.
Original report: Ad watchdog recommends Apple drop 'Available now' AI claim
Anthropic said it banned accounts using Claude for an 'influence-as-a-service' operation that had it orchestrate over 100 bot accounts on Twitter/X and Facebook, deciding which posts to like, share or comment on; scraping leaked security-camera credentials; recruitment fraud targeting Eastern European job seekers; and a novice's malware development. It has not confirmed deployment of the latter three.
Original report: Anthropic bans accounts using Claude to run bots and scams
Israeli AI startup Promai has sued former CEO Erez Ben-Eshai in Tel Aviv District Court for 10 million shekels, alleging he posed as a senior Israeli Air Force officer and used ChatGPT to forge purchase agreements with companies reportedly including Boeing, Tesla and Medtronic, leading it to spend about 20 million shekels for nonexistent clients. He denies all allegations.
Original report: Israeli startup sues ex-CEO over allegedly ChatGPT-forged contracts
Consumer advice centre Verbraucherzentrale warns that, under an updated privacy policy announced by email on March 20, eBay may use members' personal data to train AI from April 21, 2025 unless they objected beforehand. Objecting later is possible, but data already used cannot be retrieved; eBay cites a "legitimate interest" in improving its services.
Original report: eBay to train AI on member data unless users object
