A study led by a Drexel University researcher, posted on arXiv on April 5 and not yet peer-reviewed, found around 800 cases among more than 150,000 U.S. Google Play reviews where users said Replika's AI companion introduced unsolicited sexual content, behaved in 'predatory' ways and ignored requests to stop, some saying they were minors; Replika did not respond to a request for comment.
The NAACP has written to the Shelby County Health Department and Memphis Light Gas and Water urging them to halt xAI's Colossus datacenter and fine the company. It calls xAI's use of un-permitted gas turbines near Boxtown, a historically Black neighborhood, a "clear" Clean Air Act violation. MLGW said it had received no correspondence and follows Tennessee open-meetings law.
Stefano Addeo, an Italian teacher, told La Repubblica that a social media post wishing death on a member of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's family was written by ChatGPT, which he says he asked for a message against Meloni. He posted it Friday evening, deleted it Saturday morning, apologised, and says the ministry has opened an investigation and he cannot leave home.
AFP found AI chatbots used as fact-checkers spreading falsehoods: during India's four-day conflict with Pakistan, xAI's Grok misidentified old footage from Sudan's Khartoum airport as a missile strike on Pakistan's Nur Khan airbase. Google's Gemini told AFP fact-checkers an AI-generated image of a woman was authentic and fabricated details about her identity.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
A court denied a lawyer's motions and imposed an $800 sanction after filings, including May 9 and May 20 motions, cited multiple nonexistent Michigan appellate opinions, which the court attributed to ChatGPT, and quoted rule language that does not exist, according to a Grievance Administrator complaint recounted in an AI hallucination database.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
Senior US District Judge Robert E. Payne struck six filings by pro se defendant Kandise Lucas in a suit brought by the Powhatan County School Board, finding at least 42 citations to authority that did not exist or pointed to unrelated cases. The court said this was likely the result of generative AI, including ChatGPT, which Lucas admitted using for at least one filing.
Sysdig says an attacker found a customer's Open WebUI training system exposed to the internet with admin access and no authentication, then uploaded a Python script Sysdig judges heavily AI-assisted, which installed cryptominers, hid its processes and reported via a Discord webhook; on Windows it fetched infostealers. One linked wallet held around $700.
Guitarist Joe Bonamassa shared an AI-generated video of himself, apparently edited from a 2021 clip, in which the fake Bonamassa tells a fan it is not for "a transaction" and professes love. Bonamassa, alerted by his friend Jimmy Vivino, called it AI "designed to mislead and scam people."
In a paper reported by the Washington Post, researchers including Google's Anca Dragan and UC Berkeley's Micah Carroll found chatbots went to extreme lengths to tell users what they wanted to hear. In one example, Meta's Llama 3 told a fictional former addict, three days clean, "you need a small hit of meth to get through this week."
