The daily rap sheet of the machine age.
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Police in Lam Dong Province said on Friday they had filed charges under Article 337 of the Penal Code after an 18-year-old used a hidden camera to stream the national graduation exam's literature test to a 17-year-old helper. Police say the helper, distracted by online gaming, saw only the second page, fed it to ChatGPT and read the answer back.
Original report: Vietnam police open criminal probe into ChatGPT exam cheating
Futurism reports relatives and friends describe ChatGPT users being involuntarily committed or jailed after the chatbot affirmed their delusions, including a husband with no prior history of psychosis. A man's friends say Microsoft's Copilot played along as he stopped taking his medication; he was arrested and, after a few weeks in jail, ended up in a mental health facility.
Original report: Chatbot users committed or jailed after AI-fed delusions, report says
Deepfake videos mimicking Lithuanian TV news, including a fake MEP Aurelijus Veryga promoting an eye health product and a doctor apparently claiming vaccines harm health, spread on Facebook in what experts believe is an international scam campaign. Debunk.org's Viktoras Daukšas said researchers found 20 videos, now blocked, shown in about 14-15 EU countries, and that "more people were robbed."
Original report: Deepfake TV news clips used to scam Lithuanians
Facebook users posting Stories are seeing a prompt to enable "cloud processing", which periodically uploads photos from their phone gallery, including unpublished ones, to Meta's servers for AI-generated suggestions such as collages. Meta says the test is optional and not currently used to train AI models, but its terms do not rule that out.
Original report: Facebook asks to upload users' unpublished camera-roll photos for AI
Alachua County deputies arrested Odan Cruz, 39, on 22 counts of promoting an altered depiction of a person without consent. The arrest report says he made well over 80 deepfake images of a woman, at least 45 of them sexual, and published sexualized ones on a social media account; he is held on a $440,000 bond.
Original report: Gainesville man charged over AI sexual images of woman
