Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered 36 secondary school teachers in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa reinstated, overturning a July 14, 2025 Service Tribunal judgment that upheld their termination. The court noted with "dismay" that the tribunal relied on legal citations that do not exist, and suggested it may have used artificial intelligence that "hallucinated" them; it also found the education directorate had violated due process.
Canada's privacy commissioner, Philippe Dufresne, has opened an investigation, following complaints, into digital signs near Toronto's Union Station that allegedly use facial detection software to count audiences and estimate gender and approximate age. The signs were installed about three years ago by Cineplex Digital Media, which has said it strictly adheres to the commissioner's guidance.
Bunnings has admitted its AI chatbot gave faulty advice after it gave a Queensland customer six steps for replacing an extension cord plug, work that only a licensed electrician may legally do there. Chief information officer Gen Elliott said the company has strengthened safeguards so requests about electrical, plumbing or other licensed work are referred to a qualified tradesperson.
Alberta's Court of King's Bench added $1,000 per set of respondents to the costs owed by self-represented appellant Joel Barrette, who cited at least three fake authorities: two non-existent cases and a non-existent regulation. Applying a Court of Appeal precedent on AI-generated citations, Justice Douglas R. Mah noted Barrette never acknowledged sending three sets of counsel and the court on a wild goose chase.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
Arizona attorney Matthew V. Moosbrugger admitted at a hearing that he checked a brief's AI-generated citations, from Federally Lawyer, a ChatGPT add-on, only by asking ChatGPT whether they were real cases; the court found one non-existent case and five misquoted ones. Deeming public humiliation a sufficient remedy, it imposed no further sanctions but sent its order to the State Bar of Arizona.
UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper will warn on Tuesday that foreign states are flooding social media with generative AI and manipulated videos to undermine support for Ukraine, in remarks apparently aimed at Moscow. Officials warn Russia is using forged documents and deepfake material, and point to fake websites mimicking Moldova's PAS party during September elections.
From the afternoon of December 7, fanpages shared videos headlined 'Police urgently arrest MC Quyền Linh for selling poor-quality goods', showing a man resembling the host being restrained; users soon spotted them as deepfakes. In a December 8 livestream, Quyền Linh called the claims baseless, saying he had work engagements in Hanoi with the Vietnam Cinema Association.
