The daily rap sheet of the machine age.
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Voiceover artist Gayanne Potter says ReadSpeaker trained 'Iona', the synthetic voice now making ScotRail's onboard announcements, using her voice from work she did for the firm in 2021, which she was told was for accessibility and e-learning software. ReadSpeaker says it has addressed her concerns 'several times'; ScotRail says it has no plans to remove Iona.
Original report: Voice artist says ScotRail's AI announcer is her clone
According to The Wall Street Journal, TuSimple (now CreateAI) sent sensitive self-driving data to Chinese truck maker Foton from around February 2022, a week after signing a US national security agreement to cease such transfers. A CFIUS investigation found the sharing did not technically violate the agreement; TuSimple was fined for other infractions and paid a $6 million settlement without admitting fault.
Original report: TuSimple sent self-driving data to China after pledge, WSJ says
Officials running Indonesia's 2025 SNBT university entrance exam say AI was used to alter participant cards so candidates could change their listed test location, a ruse they say failed against unique barcodes and numbering. They found at least 50 participants cheating and 10 proxy test-takers; a seat in a favoured programme could cost hundreds of millions of rupiah.
Original report: Indonesian officials say exam cheats used AI to alter cards
Search logs obtained via a public records request to the Danville, Illinois police and reviewed by 404 Media show more than 4,000 lookups by local and state police in Flock's AI-powered licence-plate reader network done for federal law enforcement or with a potential immigration focus. ICE has no Flock contract; reasons logged include 'immigration', 'ICE' and 'ICE WARRANT'.
Original report: Local police run Flock plate-camera lookups for ICE, data shows
In a campground zoning appeal, Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Deepika B. Shukla said the court was unable to find Capone v. Zoning Board of Appeals of Marlborough, cited by the plaintiff, and that the citation is incorrect or the case does not exist. A Westlaw editor's note says the unverified citations were likely generated by AI tools used by a party or counsel.
Original report: Massachusetts judge can't find case cited in campground zoning appeal
Mexican influencer Alana Flores said on X on May 27 that an intimate image of her circulating on social media was created with AI and is not real, and that she will seek to sue. Responding to people asking whether she would sue an AI, she said she knows the person who started it, though his account has been deleted.
Original report: Influencer Alana Flores plans to sue over AI deepfake image
