The daily rap sheet of the machine age.
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A job seeker received an email offering a head of communications role at a surgical augmented and virtual reality company, then was interviewed by chat on Teams, apparently by a bot, and by phone before being offered $350,000 a year. A company contact told him it was a scam; according to NBC10 Boston, he neither sent money nor shared sensitive information.
Original report: Scammers' fake job interview dangles $350,000 salary
An AI-generated smear video falsely accusing radio host Julia Mengolini of incest circulated widely online, the New York Times reported, while President Javier Milei mocked her, posting at least 65 messages against her on X over a weekend. According to the Times, Milei never shared the video but made clear he considered the campaign justified retaliation.
Original report: Milei fires off at least 65 posts at AI-smeared journalist
BJP MLC Prasad Lad said on Wednesday that unidentified persons forged his letterhead and signature and created his voice using AI to transfer Rs 3.20 crore from Ratnagiri district to Beed, listing 36 works. Council Chairman Ram Shinde said a similar incident had happened to him, and that MLCs Uma Khapre and Niranjan Davkhare had also been targeted.
Original report: MLC alleges AI voice clone moved Rs 3.20 crore
A Manchester woman was asked to leave two shops, including a Home Bargains, after a staff member falsely logged her as stealing about £10 of items and Facewatch's facial recognition watchlist flagged her as a shoplifter. After about two weeks of emails, her ban was lifted when it emerged the toilet roll had already been paid for.
Original report: Home Bargains shopper wrongly put on Facewatch shoplifter watchlist
Acting Judge DJ Smit of the Gauteng High Court, Johannesburg, found two non-existent cases cited in Northbound Processing's heads of argument in its licence dispute with the South African Diamond and Precious Metals Regulator. Time pressure was cited, and a lawyer said he had used the subscription tool Legal Genius; the judge referred the practitioners' conduct to the Legal Practice Council for investigation.
Original report: Judge refers Northbound lawyers over Legal Genius phantom citations
Authors Catherine Denial, Ian McDowell and Steven Schwartz filed a putative class action against OpenAI and Microsoft in the Northern District of California on June 30, alleging mass copyright infringement through AI training on books from "shadow libraries". The complaint lists three nonfiction books and claims OpenAI builds its model "on a foundation of stolen IP."
Original report: Three more authors sue OpenAI and Microsoft over shadow libraries
Numerous TikTok accounts have posted racist and antisemitic videos of up to eight seconds bearing Google's Veo watermark, mostly targeting Black people, according to a MediaMatters report. Ars found elements easy to reproduce with simple prompts; TikTok says more than half the cited accounts were banned before the report was published and the rest have since been removed.
Original report: Racist Veo 3 videos slip past Google and TikTok rules
Delhi Police arrested a 21-year-old man on Tuesday for allegedly stalking and sexually harassing his ex-girlfriend by creating explicit images of her with AI tools and spreading them through fake Instagram profiles, police said. Officers traced him using IP logs from Instagram and filed a case under sections 78 and 79 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
Original report: Delhi Police arrest man over AI-made explicit images of ex
A PwC investigation found Tromsø municipality adopted AI before it was ready, without an AI strategy or training, after UiT researchers discovered fabricated source references in its school-structure report. PwC said it could not see that AI affected the proposal to close eight schools, but the invented references affected trust in the municipality; it also found missing project mandates, unclear roles and procedural breaches.
Original report: PwC review finds Tromsø adopted AI before it was ready
