At a hearing on partial summary judgment motions in Kadrey v. Meta, Judge Vince Chhabria said he couldn't see how using authors' work to build tools that could obliterate their market could be fair use, but doubted the authors, including Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, could prove such harm. Meta does not deny downloading books from shadow libraries like LibGen.
Doctored explicit images and videos of former Nashville TV meteorologist Bree Smith were used to try to extort money from others, with impostor accounts offering dinners and intimate acts for hundreds of dollars; she says hundreds have appeared. A Tennessee bill she backed, letting targets sue over nonconsensual images, passed the state Senate and was sent to Gov. Bill Lee.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
Seeking to repossess his tenants' flat, a landlord read Quebec's housing tribunal his ChatGPT translations of Civil Code articles, which, it found, rewrote them with a completely different meaning. The tribunal dismissed his application on 1 May 2025 but rejected the tenants' abuse claim, finding he had been misled by AI and sincerely believed the lease renewal was suspended.
Weibo says it labelled AI-fabricated content copied from other platforms, including a purported account of a lung operation, debunked false claims about family ties, cleared personal attacks on unrelated people and temporarily muted several accounts over a controversy China's National Health Commission is investigating. It warned users against fabricating stories to chase traffic.
A Louisville mother got a call in what sounded like her daughter's voice saying she had been in a car accident, before a man calling himself 'Hector' threatened to kidnap the girl if police were called. Her daughter was safe at school; the mother says she doesn't know what the scammer wanted, and the FBI has warned of AI voice cloning.
