The daily rap sheet of the machine age.
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Elon Musk's DOGE is using a customised version of his Grok chatbot to analyse data, Reuters reported, and two sources said staff told the Department of Homeland Security to use it though it lacks approval there, which DHS denies. Experts said this could breach privacy law if the data is sensitive; a former Bush ethics counsel raised conflict-of-interest concerns.
Original report: DOGE reportedly expands use of Musk's own Grok chatbot
Former Corinth School District superintendent Edward Lee Childress was taken into custody May 23 on a first-degree hindering prosecution indictment, the First District Attorney's Office says. Former teacher Wilson Jones faces three felony counts of depicting a child engaging in sexual conduct over alleged AI porn of students; the school board had removed Childress after he failed to file a complaint.
Original report: Ex-superintendent indicted over teacher's alleged AI porn of students
Diego N, a former Instituto Politécnico Nacional student whom women students accuse of using AI to edit their photos to look nude, was sentenced on May 21 to five years in prison for trafficking in the form of child pornography in a separate case file, the IPN's Digital Justice Assembly said. In December 2024 he was acquitted of a sexual-intimacy offence.
Original report: Ex-IPN student Diego N gets five years in separate case
At a High Court hearing on possible contempt proceedings, counsel for Sarah Forey, then a pupil barrister, said she did not appreciate the seriousness of citing non-existent cases in Ayinde v Haringey and, while unaware of using AI, now understands Google and Safari can produce AI overviews. Forey has reported herself to the Bar Standards Board; judgment is reserved.
Original report: Barrister didn't grasp seriousness of fake citations, High Court hears
Cybercriminals posted TikTok videos, most likely AI-generated, promising free Windows and Microsoft Office or premium CapCut and Spotify features if viewers ran a PowerShell command, which instead installed malware such as Vidar and StealC, according to Trend Micro researchers. TikTok confirmed that the accounts behind the campaign have been deactivated.
Original report: Likely AI-made TikTok videos coaxed users into installing malware
The Auschwitz museum warned that Facebook pages, including one called '90's History', are posting short bios of camp victims with fictional information and photos 'clearly made by artificial intelligence'. Deputy spokesman Pawel Sawicki said producing false identities of victims is 'falsifying history' and could feed Holocaust denial; the museum has contacted Meta.
Original report: Auschwitz museum says Facebook pages post AI-made victims
Resisting costs after losing bids to appeal against Nationwide News and Twitter, Goran Nikolic and co-applicant IDAZ09 Pty Ltd cited three decisions the Victorian Court of Appeal concluded do not exist, two of them most probably AI 'hallucinations'; a reply to the registry also appeared AI-generated. Justice Beach ordered them to pay indemnity costs fixed at $47,500 and $40,000.
Original report: Victorian appeal court finds litigants cited three non-existent cases
