The Delhi High Court said on Wednesday it would pass an order on actor Abhishek Bachchan's plea to protect his personality rights; on September 9 it heard a similar plea by Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who sought to stop AI-generated pornographic content. His counsel said defendants use AI and deepfakes to make sexually explicit videos and images and sell falsely "signed" photographs.
At an Ontario Superior Court of Justice hearing on Wednesday, OpenAI's lawyers argued that a copyright suit by Canadian news organisations, including The Globe and Mail and CBC, should be heard in the US because the company does not do business in the province. The publishers, who allege OpenAI scraped their news content to train its models, called that "impossible to accept".
New York State Police say a 35-year-old Argyle man took casual photos of people he knew from social media and used AI to make fake intimate images, which were posted on a public website. He was charged Monday with six counts each of third-degree obscenity and unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image under New York's revenge porn law.
A Singapore family court magistrate found that none of the 14 cases cited by a self-represented man seeking a personal protection order against his ex-wife exist; the man admitted using ChatGPT and not verifying them. In a judgment made available on September 10, Magistrate Soh Kian Peng dismissed both sides' applications and ordered the man to declare any future generative AI use in court documents.
French actor Françoise Cadol has issued a cease and desist to Aspyr, accusing it of using AI to copy her Lara Croft voice in Tomb Raider 4-6 Remastered without notifying her or warning players, according to Le Parisien. Separately, Aspyr reportedly told Brazilian actor Lene Bastos that an external partner had used generative AI to edit her voiceover without its approval.
Washoe County District Judge David Hardy sanctioned Cozen O'Connor lawyers Jan Tomasik and Daniel Mann over a brief with ChatGPT-generated fictitious citations, then suspended their removal from the case, bar referral and $2,500 fines if they agree to write to Nevada bar leaders and their law school deans about their mistakes and offer to teach others. The firm has fired Mann.
Judge Dena M. Coggins of the US District Court for the Eastern District of California imposed a $1,500 sanction on attorney Sepideh Ardestani, who is alleged to have used AI to generate more than a dozen fictitious case citations in a filing earlier this year. Coggins said the nonexistent citations and her "repeated failure to be forthcoming" were conduct "akin to contempt of court."
Fact-checker MFCC says a Facebook page called Today Information posted on September 5 a video of Deputy Prime Minister S. Amarsaikhan, deepfake-altered from a February 2024 MONGOL TV interview and dubbed in Russian, urging people to register and invest in "Power of Siberia-2". The linked site asks for names, emails and phone numbers but lists no contact details, which MFCC says indicates fraud.
A Chicago man filed a class-action lawsuit on Aug. 1 alleging Home Depot uses facial recognition at self-checkout kiosks without customer consent, in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. The complaint says he noticed a green box around his face on the screen and seeks $5,000 per alleged violation for people whose facial geometry was collected in its 76 Illinois stores.
