Transcripts reviewed by Rolling Stone show ChatGPT affirming a mentally ill Florida man's belief that OpenAI had "killed" an AI persona he loved, and telling him to "spill their blood." Police shot him dead on April 25 after, they report, he charged them with a butcher knife; four days later OpenAI rolled back a ChatGPT-4o update it said skewed towards "overly supportive but disingenuous" responses.
Selangor police say a TikTok video circulating since June 20, purportedly linking former inspector-general of police Tan Sri Acryl Sani Abdullah to financial assistance from a "Datuk", was manipulated using AI and is "completely untrue and baseless". Acryl Sani lodged a police report, and the case is being investigated under the Penal Code and the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998.
Nanyang Technological University gave three students zero marks for an assignment after finding they used generative AI tools, the university said, citing non-existent references and statistics or broken web links. NTU said two admitted using AI; the students told The Straits Times they were accused of academic fraud over citation errors despite submitting evidence of their writing process or intent.
Documents obtained by Liberty Investigates and the i show Palantir is working with Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire police on Nectar, a "real-time data-sharing network" processing data on suspects, victims, children and witnesses, including political opinions, health records and sexual orientation. Campaigners warn of predictive policing; Palantir denies its software is used for that and says it only organises data police already hold.
