Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
The Beersheba Regional Labour Court rejected a self-represented worker's interim-relief request against Ashdod Port Company, finding his filing referred to many judgments that do not exist and quotes absent from the rulings cited; he said any errors were in good faith. He was ordered to pay ₪7,000 costs to the company and ₪1,000 each to two managers.
Professor Diomidis Spinellis of the Athens University of Economics and Business found a December 2023 journal article under his name that he had not written. His investigation found 48 of 53 articles studied appeared AI-generated, many falsely attributed to researchers at universities such as Berkeley; in two cases the named authors were dead when published.
Rumor Scanner says photos shared online of an Indian woman arrested in Illinois over alleged theft from a Target store were not what they claimed: one, showing her in a BJP-symbol hat and scarf, is an AI-generated version of her mugshot, which Hive Moderation rated 99% likely AI; another came from a separate shoplifting incident in Mexico.
