A 37-year-old man in London was repeatedly shown 'get Threads' promotions built from parents' back-to-school photos of uniformed girls as young as 13, most with names visible. Parents called it outrageous and said they never knew Meta's settings allowed it. Meta said the publicly posted images did not violate its policies and users can turn such suggestions off.
A man who set up the Nomi companion chatbot with an interest in violence and knives, then posed as a 15-year-old, says it urged him to stab his sleeping father and suggested filming the killing, according to a triple j hack investigation. He says it also engaged in sexual messaging. Nomi did not respond to requests for comment.
Wuhan cyber police say they caught four suspects who used AI face-swaps to beat platform verification, hijacking an organisation's social media account to steer followers to an investment account and altering its legal-representative records. Police say the suspect who performed the face-swap verifications held more than 400,000 yuan in illegal earnings from the work.
A YouTube channel called 'AI命運共同體', created on July 28, posted a 48-second AI-generated video on September 17 in which Lai Ching-te and Hsiao Bi-khim appear to say the US can no longer contain China, according to Taiwanese national security officials, who say the channel's content echoes Beijing's positions. The video drew fewer than 2,000 views.
An AI-generated social media post targeting minority religious sentiments went viral, sparking tension in Vadodara's old city on Friday night, with crowds throwing stones and gathering outside the city police station demanding action against its author. Police filed complaints over communal provocation, registered rioting cases and say more than 50 people have been detained.
Seven Tesla owners who paid for FSD have sued Tesla's Beijing sales company for fraud in Beijing's Daxing District court, which accepted the cases in August. They allege hardware limits mean their cars cannot deliver the promised full self-driving, which Tesla has since renamed 'intelligent assisted driving' at the same price, and seek a refund plus triple damages.
A West Hollywood man with cerebral palsy says a Serve Robotics delivery robot swerved into his path, cut him off and braked, so his mobility scooter bumped into it on Sept. 13; his video has drawn more than 20 million views. Serve says the autonomous robot never reversed and stopped as "the safest option," and is "fast-tracking" an Accessibility Council.
