Deloitte Australia will partially refund the federal government after admitting generative AI was used in a $440,000 report for the Department of Workplace Relations that contained three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement. The admission, naming Azure OpenAI GPT-4o, sits in the revised report's methodology section; the department says the recommendations are unchanged.
Brennan Marcotte, a former band director for Inola Public Schools, faces a felony charge of possessing child sexual abuse material after the Rogers County Sheriff's Office says it found more than 40 AI-generated images on Marcotte's phone. The inquiry began when the superintendent reported inappropriate messages involving a student and a former student. Marcotte has posted a $50,000 bond.
A 13-year-old Florida student was arrested and booked into the county jail after typing "How to kill my friend in the middle of class" into ChatGPT on a school device, a query the AI-powered monitoring system Gaggle flagged to a school police officer. The teen said he was "just trolling" a friend; the sheriff's office called it another "joke" that created an emergency.
A 24-year-old woman in Franconia used AI to insert a generated man into a video chat and told her mother the stranger was sitting in her flat drinking coffee and refusing to leave, according to Coburg police. The frightened mother called police, and the woman, who apologised repeatedly, faces a gross mischief offence carrying a fine of up to 1,000 euros.
