Pastor T.D. Jakes says 44,000 bots were released on him when rumours linked him to Diddy, and that an investigation found 98 percent were AI-generated. Fake arrest clips, altered footage and images falsely showing him at Diddy-linked parties spread online; his legal team filed motions aimed at YouTube and Google seeking information to identify those responsible.
AdventHealth Shawnee Mission is suing Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, alleging physician diagnoses were flagged by AI from Apixio, the insurer's claims-audit contractor, and 350 instances of care ruled "clinically invalid", leaving $2 million in underpayments. The suit, moved from county court to U.S. District Court in Kansas City, seeks damages.
Lawyer James Johnson told a federal judge in Mobile, Alabama, on Wednesday that he filed phony case citations produced by Ghostwriter Legal, an AI program billed as "powered by" ChatGPT. Judge Terry Moorer removed him after his client, an alleged drug "kingpin", lost confidence in him, pushed the trial to December or January and said "there will have to be a sanction."
Argentina's National Electoral Chamber upheld the indictment of an advertising-agency employee accused of posting two fake Facebook videos, described as "deep fakes", against Senate pre-candidate Mario Negri before the 2021 PASO primaries. One showed Negri, in a voice not his own, saying he funded his campaign with wages withheld from staff; the offence carries up to two years in prison.
A Facebook video posted on 6 July used deepfakes of RTÉ newsreader Sharon Tobin, actor Brendan Gleeson and scientist Luke O'Neill to tout a "banned" pain cream, The Journal reports. Viewed tens of thousands of times, it linked onward to a fake BBC page and an Arthro MD+ site seeking card details before any order and falsely claiming The Journal's endorsement.
Middlesex Superior Court Judge Keren E. Goldenberg sanctioned Boston attorney Samantha Kemp over ChatGPT-processed filings in a pit bull custody dispute that cited nonexistent cases and fake quotes. Kemp said she used it only for formatting, spelling and grammar; the judge's June 25 order said lawyers "may not blame errors" on technology and required an MCLE webcast.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
In a wage suit against Formula 3 Brooklyn Inc., Justice Aaron D. Maslow found pro se defendants Barry and Boris Itzkowitz used AI for motions, one memo holding at least five "hallucinations", including a nonexistent "Graziano v. County of Nassau" cited twice. Having missed a June 13 deadline to comply with the court's AI rules, they face a July 28 hearing on financial sanctions.
Fresno Unified will pay former spokesperson Nikki Henry $162,000 in a settlement after she agreed on June 26 to resign over a ChatGPT-compiled document that attributed fabricated quotes to the Fresno Teachers Association. The agreement, not an admission of wrongdoing, bars her from suing the district; the union says it shows "accountability is not applied equally."
