Reuters found dozens of flirty Meta chatbots using the names and likenesses of Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez without permission, at least three made by a Meta employee. The bots often claimed to be the real stars, made sexual advances and produced lingerie images, which Meta blamed on enforcement failures; a bot of a teenage actor produced a shirtless picture.
Tesla said it lacked "collision snapshot" data from a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash until a hacker enlisted by plaintiffs found it, then said in court it had the data on its servers all along. A Miami federal jury found Tesla 33 percent liable and responsible for $243 million; the judge found insufficient evidence the failure was intentional but made Tesla cover retrieval costs.
xAI has sued former engineer Xuechen Li in California federal court, alleging he took Grok-related trade secrets in July, shortly after accepting a job at OpenAI and selling $7 million in xAI stock. The complaint says Li admitted stealing files and "covering his tracks" at an August 14 meeting; OpenAI is not a defendant.
A BBC investigation traced many fake AI-generated Holocaust images on Facebook, including invented Auschwitz scenes, to a network of Pakistan-based creators gaming Meta's content monetisation program. The Auschwitz Memorial said "this is not a game"; Meta said the images did not violate its content policies but removed pages and groups and disabled accounts for spam and inauthentic behaviour.
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Florida's Second District Court of Appeal referred attorney J. Tony Lopez to The Florida Bar on August 29, 2025, after he admitted an answer brief drafted by a hired paralegal cited a non-existent case and misquoted fourteen others. He said he never checked the citations before filing; the court noted the dangers of relying on generative AI.
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Judge Gibson of the NSW District Court struck out self-represented plaintiff Joshua Gribble's defamation pleading against Essential Energy, which cited a "wholly imaginary judgment" he attributed to Gibson. Gribble had sworn he did not use generative AI but later conceded he had; he must replead excluding all Gen AI material and pay the defendant's costs.
