The ACLU says Flock, which runs a nationwide license plate tracking system for police, is apparently now using AI to judge whether drivers' movement patterns are "suspicious," citing a February 13 press release on a "Multi-State Insights" feature that alerts police when suspect vehicles are detected in multiple states. It says nothing is known of the algorithms' logic or error rates.
Three current FDA employees told CNN, and documents seen by CNN show, that the agency's Elsa AI tool, touted by Commissioner Marty Makary, has made up nonexistent studies and misrepresented research. FDA AI head Jeremy Walsh acknowledged it can hallucinate; Makary said he had not heard those concerns and that staff don't have to use it.
Judge Julien Xavier Neals of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey withdrew his June 30 ruling in a CorMedix shareholder case as "entered in error" after lawyers flagged made-up quotes and misstated case outcomes. The report notes that the lawyers' complaints make no mention of AI.
Civil rights group Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF) says it has filed a constitutional complaint against Bavarian rules letting police use Palantir's VeRA platform, arguing its mass data analysis violates the right to control one's own data and telecommunications secrecy. The state criminal police office says it is used only for serious crime; the GFF says victims and people reporting crimes can come under scrutiny.
A hacker inserted commands that could erase users' data into Amazon's Q AI coding tool, which Amazon then distributed in an update to its Q extension, according to a report by The Information. The commands were deemed unlikely to run, and critics on X say compromised version 1.84.0 was quietly removed without public acknowledgment.
Robert Dillon was arrested in August 2024 on suspicion of trying to lure a 12-year-old girl some 300 miles from his home after a Jacksonville Sheriff's Office facial recognition search returned a 93 percent match; he was released, no charges were filed and the arrest is to be erased. Police say two witnesses also picked him from photos; he reportedly plans to sue.
Chico Buarque, 81, has sued Facebook over an Instagram post that used his song Cálice, via artificial intelligence and without authorization, behind an illustration depicting Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes as a dictator. A court granted his request to remove the video links a day after the July 14 filing; he awaits a ruling on disclosing the account holder's identity.
AI-made Facebook videos manipulated statements by Brazil's Central Bank president Gabriel Galípolo and director Paulo Picchetti to promote a supposed "financial compensation" for all Pix users, aiming to steer victims to a site harvesting personal data, according to the Attorney General's Office (AGU). Facebook removed the posts on Tuesday the 22nd, hours after an AGU notice.
Motivational speaker Tony Robbins has sued InnoLeap and Mira Muse, the companies behind YesChat, alleging bots such as 'Tony Robbins GPT' ingested his seminars and resell them under his trademarked name, competing with his own $99-a-month AI clone. The suit, filed June 26 in federal court in San Diego, seeks at least $10 million.
