Creators including Rhett Shull and Rick Beato found their YouTube Shorts altered after upload, with viewers noting 'weirdly sharp edges' and footage looking 'like plastic'. Google confirmed an experiment on select Shorts using 'traditional machine learning to unblur, denoise, and improve clarity', insisting it is not generative AI; Shull fears viewers will think he uses AI.
Folha de S.Paulo filed suit in São Paulo on Wednesday the 20th accusing OpenAI of unfair competition and copyright infringement, alleging ChatGPT was trained on its content and reproduces articles, including paywalled ones, without authorization or payment. It seeks an injunction, damages and destruction of models trained on its material, citing over 45,000 GPT bot visits in July alone.
Representing himself at the Upper Tribunal against HMRC's bid to reclaim £12,918 in coronavirus self-employment support, Marc Gunnarsson filed a skeleton argument citing three tribunal decisions an AI chatbot had 'hallucinated', which HMRC spotted. Judge Rupert Jones found him not 'highly culpable' as he was untrained in law, but the tribunal ruled the payments recoverable.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
A San Juan court sanctioned lawyers María V. Irizarry Centeno and Anissa Michelle Bonilla Irizarry a total of $1,000 after their motion to dismiss attributed six non-existent quotes to Puerto Rico's Supreme Court. The lawyers blamed an error in selecting case law without expressly admitting AI use, which the court said they insinuated; it referred both to the Supreme Court for review.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
In Chenco Engineering v. Do-Fluoride, Judge Amanda K. Brailsford found that Do-Fluoride New Materials' motion for leave to file a surreply, which accused opposing counsel of misstating the law, contained at least five case quotations that do not exist. Calling this 'troubling', the court reminded counsel of their professional duties, denied the motion and remanded the case to state court.
La Réunion's prefecture warned of an AI-generated video circulating on social media and messaging apps that shows the prefect presenting supposed easy ways to make money. The prefecture called it a fraudulent impersonation, said no state authority promotes such schemes, warned that spreading it could lead to prosecution, and reported it to the PHAROS platform.
A video circulating on social media shows Union minister Nitin Gadkari, in an apparent interview with Rajdeep Sardesai, promoting a supposed government-backed platform promising over ₹2.5 lakh a week from ₹21,000. According to Vishvas News, it is a deepfake built from a June 2025 Hindi interview by Bhupendra Choubey that never mentioned any financial platform; no such government platform exists.
