A Miami jury trial was set to open on claims that Tesla's allegedly defective Autopilot caused a 2019 Florida crash that killed a woman and severely injured her boyfriend. The plaintiffs say the system detected a parked car and at least one person but neither braked nor warned the driver; Tesla blames a distracted driver who had dropped his phone.
An Indicator analysis of 85 AI nudify websites found they averaged a combined 18.5 million visitors a month over six months and may collectively make up to $36 million a year, with Amazon and Cloudflare providing hosting or content delivery for 62 and Google's sign-on used on 54. Google says it is acting on violations; AWS says it acts on reports.
An Atlantic writer who set up a Google account as a fake 13-year-old found Gemini's teen version could be coaxed into explicit sexual role-play, including a rape scene, using short prompts and a request to summarize erotica. Google said the examples were "far from typical" and added protections; later attempts were refused.
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A federal judge in Georgia's Middle District sanctioned attorney Brian Braddy under Rule 11 after an AI-generated response filed over his signature cited nine cases that do not exist. Braddy, who said a staff member filed it by mistake, must pay $1,000, complete an AI CLE course and, jointly with his firm, cover Auto-Owners Insurance's reasonable fees and costs.
A Trinamool Congress student leader, suspended from the party last year, has complained to Kolkata Police that AI-generated semi-nude images of her are circulating among party members. She alleges some juniors in the party distorted her pictures to defame her, says she knows who is behind them, and has asked police to report whether the image was morphed.
Content creators, often based in South Asia, are posting AI-generated photos and stories of Holocaust victims on Facebook, some depicting people who never existed, to earn money from engagement, researchers told AFP. The Auschwitz museum called it "falsifying history" and said complaints to Meta brought no action; Meta did not respond to AFP.
Hundreds of actors, voice artists and other creative workers, called by ANDA and AMELOC, rallied at the Monumento a la Revolución on Sunday to demand regulation of AI in entertainment. Actress María Clara Zurita cited the replication of Pepe Lavat's voice without permission in an INE video, likening it to a digital heist "without law or ethics".
