Ruling on a wife's objection to a divorce decree, a Georgia trial judge issued an order, apparently prepared by the husband's attorney, Diana Lynch, that relied partly on two non-existent cases, the Georgia Court of Appeals says. Defending it on appeal, the husband's brief cited 11 more hallucinated or irrelevant cases, one backing a fee request; the court said irregularities suggest generative AI.
Westbrook police posted a drug-seizure photo on Facebook that an officer had run through ChatGPT to add the department's badge, which altered the packaging. After hundreds of commenters spotted garbled text, the department first denied AI was used, blaming foreign "gibberish" packaging, then apparently deleted the posts and admitted the edit; Capt. Steven Goldberg said AI will no longer be used for social media.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and Attorney General Derek Brown have sued Snap Inc., alleging Snapchat is designed to addict children and facilitates drug sales and sextortion. The complaint says its My AI chatbot hallucinates and gives dangerous advice, including telling a 15-year-old test account how to hide the smell of alcohol and marijuana. Snap points to its safety features.
Der Spiegel says it identified four people in Eastern Europe behind nudify app Clothoff via an exposed database, and internal planning documents show celebrity AI nude campaigns planned for Germany, France, Britain and Spain, with ads on Telegram, Reddit and 4chan aimed at 'men between 16 and 35'. A spokesperson says the four are unknown to him.
Hanoi police are investigating two boys for 'accidental disclosure of classified information' after they used phones during the national high school graduation exam to photograph test papers and get answers from StudyX and Gemini. Police say some proctors also failed in their duties, and students involved face disqualification, annulled results and possible administrative or criminal action.
German subtitles for the first episode of Crunchyroll's Necronomico and the Cosmic Horror Show, which premiered July 1, included the line 'ChatGPT said:' at the 19:12 mark, while the English version credited 'Translator's name'. Crunchyroll told CBR a third-party vendor had used AI-generated subtitles in violation of its agreement and that it is investigating.
Cambodia's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications condemned a 29-second deepfake that dubbed footage of Senate President Hun Sen's June 27 meeting in Preah Vihear with an AI-fabricated Thai voice asking for 300 baht via TrueMoney to build a force against Thailand, promising 50,000 baht back. The ministry calls it a scam created by a Thai national.
