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Monday, June 23, 2025

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Security firm co-founder ends interview with candidate he says was AI-masked

Who did it: HUMAN Human Resources Director

Vidoc Security co-founder Dawid Moczadlo says a candidate in a technical interview used AI to alter his appearance and ChatGPT to answer questions; asked to hold his hands in front of his face, the candidate didn't, so Moczadlo ended the call. He posted the recording to LinkedIn, calling it "so messed up" and his second such case in two months.

US official says DeepSeek aids Chinese military, sought chip workarounds

Who did it: HUMAN Reuters

A senior State Department official told Reuters that DeepSeek has willingly supported China's military and intelligence operations, shares user information with Beijing's surveillance apparatus and sought to use Southeast Asian shell companies to evade US export controls on high-end chips. The official would not say whether the evasion succeeded; Nvidia says its review indicates DeepSeek used lawfully acquired H800s, not H100s.

Tesla sued over Autopilot-equipped Model S crash that killed three

Who did it: HYBRID Reuters

Estates of three family members killed when their 2024 Model S crashed in New Jersey last September sued Tesla in federal court on Monday. The wrongful-death complaint alleges the car's defective design made it stray from its lane and fail to apply emergency braking, and that Tesla failed to warn the driver, citing Musk's 2016 claim that Autopilot was "probably better" than human drivers.

Judge recommends sanctions for lawyer's Claude-assisted fake case citations

Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database

A US magistrate judge in Puerto Rico recommended that Mintvest Capital's counsel pay the defendants' attorney's fees after two filings cited nonexistent cases and quotations absent from the cited cases. At a June 12 show-cause hearing, the lawyer admitted many errors were due to the AI platform Claude and insufficient verification, and said she was "very embarrassed that this happened."

Judge rejects user's claim ChatGPT log order is mass surveillance

Who did it: HUMAN Ars Technica

Judge Ona Wang rejected a ChatGPT user's bid to intervene against the order requiring OpenAI to retain ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats, as potential evidence in news organisations' copyright suit. "The judiciary is not a law enforcement agency," Wang wrote, dismissing the user's "nationwide mass surveillance program" claim. OpenAI's objections get oral argument on June 26.

Irish judge hunts in vain for litigant's quote from EU ruling

Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database

Irish High Court judge David Holland said in a 23 June 2025 judgment he could not find a passage on 'decentralised courts', which lay litigant David Malone had quoted from Case C-416/10, there or in any other case. Malone did not say who generated it. Citing Ayinde, the judge called presenting it as a verbatim quotation unacceptable but accepted there was no intention to mislead.

Motorcyclist sues Tesla over Autopilot crash on Houston highway

Who did it: HYBRID The Independent

A motorcyclist and his passenger have sued Tesla and the car's driver in a $1 million-plus suit filed June 13 in Harris County District Court. The complaint alleges a Model 3 on Tesla's driving assist crossed three lanes of State Highway 288 in Houston on January 17, 2025, and struck them; their attorney says the driver told police it was driving automatically.