The FBI is investigating an impersonator of White House chief of staff Susie Wiles who texted and called her contacts, including prominent Republicans, asking one lawmaker for a pardon list and, in another case, for a cash transfer, the Wall Street Journal reports. Contacts said some calls came in a voice that sounded like Wiles, leading some to believe AI was mimicking it.
In a personality rights case filed by Sadhguru and Isha Foundation, the Delhi High Court issued an interim order directing online platforms to take down fake AI-generated content misusing the spiritual leader's name, image and personality. According to the foundation, the scams include morphed images of a fictitious arrest and misleading financial investment advertisements.
Brian Vincent Rausch, a Houston FBI analyst, faces four felony charges in Harris County, including two counts of possessing child pornography involving 500 or more images, according to court records. Investigators say the files also held AI-generated images nearly impossible to distinguish from real child victims. Rausch posted bond, with a court appearance set for May 30.
Dutch regulator RDW approved Tesla's Autopilot for Europe by reading the rules as allowing a chain of single manoeuvres, a "loophole" according to a Swedish official quoted by Zembla; an RDW whistleblower alerted other countries. The RDW denies using a loophole and says the system met requirements. Tesla did not respond.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
At an Ottawa Small Claims Court hearing, paralegal Nima Kiani acknowledged a factum was prepared with AI assistance, then supplied "revised" citations for three nonexistent cases that the court found were not the cases originally cited, and admitted a fourth does not exist. The plaintiff was ordered to pay $1,660.30 in costs; the judge would have ordered the representative to pay had the rules allowed.
Journalists counted at least 294 AI-generated music videos on at least 127 YouTube channels, with more than 8.6 million views, showing deepfaked stars including Beyoncé, Rihanna and R. Kelly singing "God Protect Ibrahim Traoré". A Nigeria-based creator claimed to be behind most of the popular ones; a researcher calls it a coordinated campaign but lacks proof the government is behind it.
A woman posted on Reddit that her mother believes she is in an online romance with Owen Wilson, sharing a 10-second video she believes is AI-generated. According to the post, the impostor "got her a job" with Warner Bros., sent $10 Cash App payments and wants her parents to be caretakers of a house the impostor says is being bought.
The Rockingham County Sheriff's Office warned of an online campaign using AI-created clickbait, including a student's likeness, to lure students and residents to websites with harmful pop-ups or malicious attacks. According to the office, Proxyware found nearly 100 more sites sharing the same tracking code, pointing to a centralized operation based in South Africa.
