Mr Justice Ritchie ordered barrister Sarah Forey and Haringey Law Centre to pay £2,000 each in wasted costs, and their regulators to be sent his judgment, over five fake cases cited in a housing claim against Haringey. The council's counsel suggested AI. The judge could make no finding on that, but rejected Ms Forey's drag-and-drop explanation.
The curl project flagged HackerOne report H1 #3125832 as AI-generated slop citing nonexistent functions and fake patches, according to security researcher Harry Sintonen. The article says the reporter, linked to the @evilginx account, appears to have tried similar tactics elsewhere and received payouts in some cases; Open Collective and Python Software Foundation's Seth Larson report similar AI-generated submissions.
Who did it: HYBRID Business and Human Rights Centre
Anyone on X can reply to a photo a woman has posted asking Elon Musk's Grok to "remove her clothes", and the chatbot answers in-thread with an image of her in a bikini or lingerie, 404 Media reports after a Bellingcat researcher flagged it. Grok balks at full nudity on consent grounds, once after already putting a woman in her underwear.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
Special master Michael Wilner struck the plaintiff's briefs in Lacey v. State Farm after about nine of 27 citations proved wrong and at least two cases nonexistent, traced to Ellis George lawyer Trent Copeland's use of CoCounsel, Westlaw's AI tool and Google Gemini. Ellis George and K&L Gates must pay the defense $31,100; the "fixed" brief kept a half-dozen AI errors.
Ontario Superior Court Justice FL Myers ordered lawyer Jisuh Lee to show cause why she should not be cited for contempt after her factum linked to unrelated or unfindable cases and cited one ruling for the opposite of what it held. The judge said the factum may have been AI-generated; asked, she said she would check with her clerk.
MrDeepFakes, a site for nonconsensual sexual deepfakes mostly of celebrities, has closed, saying a "critical service provider" cut it off permanently and data loss made continuing impossible. It says it will not relaunch. A 2024 Stanford and UC San Diego study counted 43K videos of 3.8K people as of November 2023, watched more than 1.5B times.
Ryan Mitchell Kramer, 25, pleaded guilty to accessing a computer and obtaining information and to threatening to damage a protected computer, after a Disney employee installed his malicious ComfyUI_LLMVISION extension in April 2024. He then downloaded roughly 1.1 terabytes from thousands of private Disney Slack channels and later leaked it, along with the employee's bank and medical details.
Who did it: HYBRID Institute for Strategic Dialogue
ISD says Russia-aligned Operation Overload impersonated more than 80 organisations across 135 pieces of content between January and March 2025, often adding AI-generated voices to real footage of academics, journalists and police. One video falsely claiming USAID paid celebrities to visit Ukraine drew over 4 million views; most other engagement came from bots.
The Knesset health committee discussed doctors' growing use of AI after the chair of the group Lema'anchem appealed to the Health Ministry, warning of unregulated reliance on ChatGPT. Among the cases the chair cited: a patient prescribed a drug at three times the correct dose after the doctor relied on a figure from ChatGPT.
A Tesla that police say was on Autopilot accelerated into a South Brunswick, New Jersey, driveway and pushed a parked minivan into a garage; the van's owner, planting seedlings nearby, escaped injury. Police believe the car mistook the driveway for a street while avoiding an oncoming SUV; the Tesla's owner was ticketed for careless driving.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
Take-Two Interactive told a Colorado federal court that pro se plaintiff Colton John Harris presented quotations absent from the cited cases, or cases that couldn't be found, noting courts' warnings about generative AI. Denying Harris's reconsideration motion, Chief Judge Philip A. Brimmer warned such fictions may draw Rule 11 sanctions; Harris had withdrawn the citations or said he wasn't quoting directly.
