France's press Alliance says 81 of its member publishers sent 240 formal notices this summer to Common Crawl and its derivatives C4 and Oscar, demanding deletion of their content and archives and an end to crawling. The Alliance says it found nearly a billion items from participating publishers in Common Crawl and that publishers could sue AI firms that refuse to negotiate.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
A Beersheba magistrate's court judge could not find any of the nine rulings cited in the defence's closing arguments and concluded with near certainty they were fabricated by AI. The lawyer blamed workload, an office move and an intern; in a Sept. 1, 2025 ruling dismissing the claim against the client, the court ordered the lawyer to personally pay ₪7,500 to the state treasury.
West Virginia Rep. Riley Moore reposted to X a 15-second AI-generated clip putting Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's face on a body in a "F--- Trump" T-shirt, dancing on an escalator to The Pussycat Dolls' "Don't Cha." According to The Daily Beast, Moore appears to have been duped by the video, captioned by its apparent creator: "Something is wrong with Tim Walz."
Max Lesser of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies says five coordinated YouTube channels listing Nigeria as their location, four apparently run by likely brothers, used synthetic voiceovers and, on three, AI-generated news anchors to repackage Scott Ritter and Douglas Macgregor interviews, drawing over 5.8 million views by Aug. 30. He calls a Russian influence operation most plausible but inconclusive.
A viral video of US President Donald Trump saying India caused Pakistan's floods by opening dams in Kashmir is AI-manipulated, according to BOOM, which traced the footage to a May 31, 2025 Forbes video in which Trump was talking about China. Detection tools flagged likely voice cloning, and India's PIB Fact Check also called the video fake.
