Mrs Justice Joanna Smith rejected Getty Images' remaining copyright claim against Stability AI, ruling that Stable Diffusion, which does not store or reproduce copyright works, is not an 'infringing copy'. Getty had dropped its original claim because there was no evidence the training took place in the UK. Some trademark claims over Getty watermarks in generated images succeeded.
Koda, a Danish music rights organisation with over 52,000 members, has sued Suno in Copenhagen City Court. It alleges the AI music generator trained on members' music without permission or payment, stream-ripped audio from YouTube and scraped lyrics. Koda calls it 'the biggest theft in music history' and cites similarities to works by Aqua and MØ.
Perplexity says Amazon sent it an 'aggressive legal threat' demanding that it stop Comet users from using their AI assistants on Amazon. Perplexity calls this Amazon's first legal salvo against an AI company. In a blog post titled 'Bullying is not innovation', Perplexity argues that its agent shops using users' own credentials and permissions.
Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said on Nov 4 that an investigation had been opened into TikTok over the risk of its algorithms pushing young people towards suicide, following a parliamentary committee's request. Police will examine offences including providing a platform for suicide 'propaganda', which is punishable by three years' imprisonment. TikTok had earlier rejected the committee's 'misleading presentation'.
France's Defenseur des Droits ruled on October 10 that Facebook's job-ad system treats users differently by gender, a form of indirect sex discrimination. It gave Meta three months to report the measures it has taken. Meta said it disagrees and is 'assessing our options'. The complainants, Global Witness, Fondation des Femmes and Femmes Ingénieures, welcomed the ruling.
On Oct. 31, Fox News reported an AI-generated video of a Black woman complaining about paused SNAP benefits under the headline 'SNAP beneficiaries threaten to ransack stores over government shutdown'. After CNN's Andrew Kaczynski flagged it, Fox retitled the piece 'AI videos of SNAP beneficiaries complaining about cuts go viral' and added an editor's note.
Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation says AI-generated TikTok videos purport to show a "mass surrender" of Ukrainian soldiers near Pokrovsk. Most carry captions in various foreign languages, and the accounts sharing them show signs of a coordinated network promoting Kremlin narratives, according to the center, which says the aim is to persuade foreigners that Ukraine is losing and aid is pointless.
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Adam Asad Kelton, 25, of Lexington County, on two counts of possessing a visual depiction of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Investigators say he possessed AI-generated child sexual abuse material. Officials said this is one of the first cases under the state's new statute.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
A High Court judgment from Master McQuail, handed down on 4 November 2025, records that a witness statement by IPS Law managing partner Christopher Farnell cited wrongly named, irrelevant and nonexistent cases. A paralegal said part of the research used Google's AI Overview. Farnell apologised and called it an isolated instance.
Racially charged AI-generated videos, described as "digital blackface", are spreading on social media as people lose SNAP benefits during the government shutdown. One shows a Black woman screaming about losing her EBT benefits. Morehouse sociologist Adria Welcher calls the welfare-mother image a decades-old trope; Pew figures put Black recipients at 27 percent and White recipients at 62.
