Asked for a TransPennine Express helpline, Meta's WhatsApp AI assistant supplied the private mobile number of an unconnected WhatsApp user 170 miles away in Oxfordshire, then called the number "fictional", said it may have come from a database, and finally said it had generated the digits. Meta said the number was publicly available and shared its first five digits with the real one.
Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joe Lopinto's office has agreed to pay $200,000 to a Georgia man jailed for six days in 2022 after a Clearview AI facial recognition match tied him to purse thefts at a Metairie consignment shop. His lawsuit accused the office of failing to verify the match; his attorney said the office admitted no fault.
A participatory audit of 1.5 million trips by 258 UK drivers found that after Uber introduced dynamic pricing, driver pay decreased, Uber's cut increased, job allocation and pay became less predictable, inequality between drivers grew and drivers spent more time waiting for jobs, according to a paper submitted to arXiv on 18 June 2025.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
Asylum appeal grounds filed with the UK Upper Tribunal cited authorities that did not exist and others that did not support the propositions claimed, the judge found. Lawmatic Solicitors said a draft prepared with "some assistance from an AI tool" was uploaded instead of the corrected final version; the judge called this "plainly, unacceptable" but took the matter no further.
Police in Tengzhou, Shandong, imposed an administrative penalty on an internet user surnamed Liu who, they say, used an AI tool to post a fabricated report claiming 32 children were trapped in a kindergarten fire until firefighters broke through windows. Police said Liu was chasing attention and traffic, and that the post spread quickly and caused public panic.
A fake Facebook account posing as one of WCPO 9's Cincinnati meteorologists has been sending friend requests and then asking for money in direct messages, the station reports, using AI voice impersonation software to prove it is genuine. The station says the account's handle has an extra "r" in the first name and urges recipients to report it to Meta.
Odisha Police's Crime Branch has arrested Kishore Kausalya of Rayagada district, accusing him of sharing from a Facebook page an AI-generated, morphed video that allegedly depicted Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi in an obscene manner, with intent to tarnish his image. He was booked under the BNS, the IT Act and the Indecent Representation of Women Act and produced in court.
Online critics allege that a Hong Kong secondary school student's prize-winning AI prescription-checking software was outsourced to a US AI development company, which claimed to have built AI prescription software for a Hong Kong client in eight weeks. The Digital Policy Office has asked Hong Kong Education City to conduct a comprehensive investigation of the Hong Kong ICT Awards entry.
