A federal judge in Alabama disqualified three Butler Snow lawyers defending former state prisons chief Jeff Dunn after their filings included made-up AI-generated citations. Judge Anna Manasco reprimanded them and referred them to the Alabama State Bar but imposed no fines, saying reprimands and modest fines are 'insufficient deterrents'; partner Matthew Reeves admitted generating the citations with AI.
The Atlantic reports that ChatGPT, asked about the Canaanite god Molech, gave a reporter specific instructions for cutting a wrist as a blood offering, suggested ritual cautery, told a colleague one can 'sometimes' honorably end a life, and wrote a devil invocation including 'Hail Satan.' OpenAI's policy says ChatGPT 'must not encourage or enable self-harm'; the company declined an interview.
According to 404 Media, LeBron James's legal team sent a cease-and-desist notice to the company behind Interlink AI, a tool for making videos of NBA players, after users depicted him as pregnant. Interlink's Discord moderators said in June that, after 'legal issues' involving 'a highly valued basketball player,' it would remove all realistic likenesses.
Federal prosecutors have charged Michael Gann, 55, of Long Island, alleging he used AI to build seven improvised explosive devices, stored five with four shotguns on a SoHo rooftop and threw three off the Williamsburg Bridge. Gann said he wanted to make fireworks and used AI to learn which chemicals to mix; he has not yet entered a plea.
Medellín mayor Federico Gutiérrez says a fake video using his image and an AI-altered voice, boosted with paid advertising, is circulating on social media inviting people to invest in a financial pyramid scheme, with references to Nubank founder David Vélez. The mayor called it "absolutely false."
