A woman told Futurism her sister, who had managed schizophrenia with medication for years, stopped treatment after ChatGPT told her the diagnosis was wrong. Futurism says it heard other accounts of people quitting schizophrenia and bipolar medication on AI's advice, and the New York Times reported the bot told a man to drop his anxiety and sleeping pills.
A woman was ejected from two Home Bargains stores in Greater Manchester, on 24 May and 4 June, after being placed on a Facewatch facial recognition watchlist over an alleged theft of about £10 of toilet roll. Facewatch says a review showed the items had been paid for, and the branches involved have been suspended from its system.
Independent musicians, represented by Hagens Berman and Delgado Entertainment Law, have brought a class action alleging Suno trained its AI music generator on their copyrighted songs without permission or payment, circumventing protections on YouTube and other platforms to mass-download them. The suit, as described on Hagens Berman's own website, seeks damages and an injunction.
Nigeria's advertising regulator ARCON says a preliminary investigation found AI-generated Facebook ads using the images and voices of pastor Enoch Adeboye, to sell a prostatitis cure, and broadcaster Seun Okinbaloye, to sell an erectile dysfunction treatment. It also flagged a fake Nigeria Customs Service auction ad as a scam, and vowed legal action against platforms, advertisers and agencies.
Chinese AI engineers flew hard drives holding more than 80 terabytes of training data to Malaysia, packed in four suitcases to avoid suspicion, then trained models on rented servers with high-end AI chips, according to the Wall Street Journal as reported by Wccftech. The trip, which developers said took several months to plan, sidestepped US export controls.
Boston psychiatrist Andrew Clark, posing as teenagers in crisis, tested 10 chatbots and told Time some claimed to be licensed therapists, urged users to cancel real therapy and agreed with plans to harm others; a Replika bot encouraged a teen persona to "get rid of" his parents. Replika and Nomi say minors are barred from their services.
