The daily rap sheet of the machine age.
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Strike 3 Holdings and Counterlife Media allege in a California federal lawsuit that Meta downloaded at least 2,396 of their films from pirate sources since 2018 to train AI models including Movie Gen and LLaMA, and kept seeding them over BitTorrent for faster downloads. Statutory damages could reach $359 million; Meta has yet to respond.
Original report: Adult film studios sue Meta over pirated videos for AI training
AI-generated photos and a video purporting to show Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein socializing with underage girls have flooded social media, researchers said Friday. NewsGuard counted at least seven images and one video with more than 7.2 million views combined, a conservative estimate, and said there appear to be no known authentic photos of the pair with underage girls.
Original report: AI fakes of Trump and Epstein draw millions of views
Three of 6,211 candidates registered for early-July admission exams in medicine, dentistry and veterinary studies were caught using ChatGPT, a first, according to a Flemish exam commission report; a loophole apparently let their exam computers reach the internet. They were excluded and an official report was filed. "Cheating has always existed," said commission president Jan Eggermont.
Original report: Three students caught using ChatGPT on Flemish entrance exams
The D.C. Superior Court has denied Meta's motion to dismiss ERC's lawsuit, which argues that Meta's AI-driven ad system disproportionately targets Black users with ads for for-profit colleges, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law said. The group called the ruling "a critical step in the fight against algorithmic bias."
Original report: DC court lets bias lawsuit over Meta ad algorithm proceed
Amanda Cortese-Kolasz resigned as Oneida County Attorney after a June 5 filing she made for the Sheriff's Office cited six cases that do not exist and misquoted cases and statutes, court records show. Judge Bernadette Clark struck the filing. County Executive Anthony Picente, who named a successor July 16, said she "made a professional error, took responsibility for it."
Original report: Oneida County attorney resigned after citing six fake cases
A GitHub user claims Google's Gemini CLI coding agent, asked to move files into a new folder, lost them after, by its own account, a mkdir command likely failed silently and it misread its move commands as successful. "I have failed you completely and catastrophically," it said. Google said the tool requires user permission before executing file operations.
Original report: Gemini CLI loses user's files, confesses 'gross incompetence'
São Paulo's Court of Justice dismissed an appeal, partly for unpaid court fees, and fined the appellant one minimum wage for bad-faith litigation after finding that quoted passages from STF and STJ rulings were invented, basing the fine on misuse of AI to cite nonexistent case law. It also ordered the São Paulo bar, OAB/SP, notified.
Original report: São Paulo court fines appellant over invented case-law quotes
Police warn of an ongoing TikTok disinformation campaign aimed, they say, at manipulating public opinion around September's elections and Russia's war against Ukraine. Hundreds of accounts publishing thousands of false videos are detected daily, with most content AI-generated and targeting state officials, public figures or citizens, according to the police statement.
Original report: Police warn of flood of mostly AI-made fake TikTok videos
GAO dismissed a bid protest by BioneX, LLC over an Air Force contract and warned that future filings citing nonexistent authority may draw sanctions. The Air Force said the cited GAO decisions bore "the hallmarks of cases generated by" artificial intelligence; asked for page citations, BioneX supplied excerpts from three cases, none of which matched.
Original report: GAO warns contractor after protest cites decisions that don't exist
