Newfoundland and Labrador's Health Human Resources Plan, written by Deloitte at a cost of nearly $1.6 million, contains at least four citations that do not, or appear not to, exist, The Independent reports. One cited co-author called a reference "false" and "potentially AI-generated." It follows a fabricated-sources scandal in the province's Education Accord. Neither Deloitte nor the government responded.
An AI-generated audio clip in which a Trump-like voice screams at officials to block release of the Epstein files spread on Instagram and TikTok, many posts drawing millions of views. NewsGuard says it came from a video showing signs of OpenAI's Sora, reshared without Sora's watermarks, "obscuring its AI origins."
DPP legislator Wang Shih-chien said on Facebook that false videos about him had appeared on Douyin and YouTube, including AI-generated fakes claiming he had gone to China. He said he uses neither platform and has been in Taiwan throughout. He also said he has no plans to visit China, and asked the public to report the videos.
Romania's Interior Ministry warned on Saturday that a viral video showing a woman climbing onto a police BMW was fake, created with AI programs, and never happened. It urged citizens not to respond to such incitement or share false clips, adding: "Viral is not synonymous with true."
Vahid Majid, head of FARAJA's FATA cyber police, said technical evidence showed that videos on Instagram attributing scenes to police officers were AI-generated and untrue. Majid said publishing them amounted to disturbing public opinion and that responsible bodies are investigating regardless of motive, and asked citizens not to reshare unverified videos.
