Federal prosecutors say Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, charged with maliciously starting the Palisades fire on New Year's Day, used ChatGPT in July 2024 to generate an image of a city engulfed in flames and, after the fire started, asked whether you are at fault if a fire is lit because of your cigarettes. The blaze killed 12 people and burned 6,000 buildings.
A student at IIIT Naya Raipur is accused of using AI tools to turn social media photos of about 36 female students into obscene images. Police say over 1,000 fake photos and videos were recovered from his devices. The institute suspended him and opened an internal probe, which victims allege is an attempt to keep police out of it.
Police raided a call centre in Nilópolis, in the Baixada Fluminense, that they say sold believers in Brazil and abroad AI-generated prayers tailored to their troubles, for an average of R$50 each. Thirty-five people, including a pastor, were arrested and released on bail; police estimate the group took in R$3 million a year.
Australian Catholic University recorded nearly 6,000 alleged academic misconduct cases in 2024, about 90 per cent tied to AI, according to internal documents seen by the ABC, which also indicate ACU regularly relied on Turnitin's AI detector alone. Wrongly accused students say they waited months to be cleared. ACU calls the figures substantially overstated and dropped the tool in March.
Ukraine's Centre for Countering Disinformation, citing NewsGuard, says Russia has stepped up information attacks on the US using AI, through the Pravda network of more than 150 sites in 49 countries. The centre says the network spread over 3.6 million pieces of Kremlin-narrative content in a year and deliberately pollutes search engines and AI models so AI algorithms repeat Kremlin messaging.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
An appeal brief before the Alicante Provincial Court attributed quoted passages to Supreme Court ruling STS 450/2025 that do not appear in it. Calling the brief the product of either AI hallucinations or a will to deceive, the court on 8 October 2025 ordered its ruling sent to the Alicante Bar Association for possible discipline, while partly upholding the appeal on other grounds.
Parents of learners at a high school on the Western Cape's West Coast have opened police cases after girls' faces were allegedly put onto nude pictures using AI and circulated at the school, the Western Cape Education Department confirmed. It said the school's own investigation could not substantiate charges against any particular learner.
Which? found eight YouTube videos, with over 17,000 views, promoting the 'Quantum AI' investment platform, which it says runs scams using deepfake videos of celebrities; YouTube removed all eight. A Reddit user reported an ad impersonating Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Sky News, and the FCA warned earlier this year that Quantum AI may lack its permission.
