Conservative activist Robby Starbuck filed a defamation lawsuit against Meta, alleging its AI tool falsely asserted he participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. He says he learned of it last summer, when a Vermont Harley-Davidson dealer, firing back at his campaign over the company's DEI policies, posted a screenshot purportedly of a Meta AI response linking him to the riot and QAnon.
Seoul police said on April 29 they had arrested and referred to prosecutors a 17-year-old accused of making 34 pieces of sexual exploitation material of 19 girls in their early teens, luring them via Instagram with offers to unmask whoever was spreading deepfakes of them, then blackmailing them for nude images. Police say he also held 1,832 fake videos, including deepfakes.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the state has sued TikTok and parent ByteDance over what he calls "deceptive claims about youth safety." The complaint alleges TikTok's algorithm is designed to keep minors endlessly scrolling while exposing them to content promoting depression, eating disorders, self-harm and drug use, and that its safety modes are ineffective and easy to bypass.
According to The Daily Telegraph, ACT Police cannot charge a 23-year-old Canberra public servant who created over 100 sexually explicit AI deepfakes of at least 16 coworkers, as there was "no evidence to suggest the images had been distributed" and a new federal law punishes sharing them. Some of the women say anonymous messages told them the images had circulated online.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
A Petah Tikva family court struck out a claim to reduce maintenance after three of five rulings it cited could not be found, rejecting counsel's explanation that a former intern miscopied case numbers and accepting that the rulings were AI-generated. Judge Merav Eliyahu ordered the lawyer to pay personal costs of ₪1,500 to the state and ₪3,500 to the other side.
