On December 2, after a one-day trial, a jury acquitted a woman of misdemeanor battery over scratches on her ex-boyfriend. Her defense claimed he had created a text message with a text-generating app, and that message led to her second arrest. Prosecutors had moved to exclude any mention of artificial intelligence or fabricated evidence.
Prime Video's AI video recap of Fallout's first season, from a feature launched in November, dated the show's flashbacks about 120 years too early and botched the main character's motivation, GamesRadar pointed out. After gaming journalists wrote about the errors, Amazon seemingly pulled the recaps from Fallout and other Prime Video series, The Verge reported.
Facial surveillance rolled out under government initiatives to help gambling addicts and stop money launderers is being used to incentivise gambling at Australian casinos and pubs, The Saturday Paper reports. Six gambling providers' privacy policies cite secondary uses; Konami has touted AI facial recognition for "personalized" gaming, and Oosto documents say its scanning at Royal Randwick also helps "grow revenues".
The Canada Revenue Agency has spent over $18 million since 2018-2019 on Charlie the Chatbot, which Auditor General Karen Hogan's October report found answered only 2 of 6 test questions accurately, against 5 of 6 for public AI tools. The CRA says its November generative AI upgrade tested at "approximately 90%" accuracy, though it cannot precisely say how many answers are correct.
An investigation by Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative found that Instacart's AI-enabled pricing experiments showed different customers prices up to 23% apart for identical items bought at the same time. Instacart did not deny the findings, calling the tests short-term and randomised, and said those on its Target storefront have ended.
A 300-page Employment Tribunal judgment by Judge Sandy Kemp quoted the 2021 Forstater ruling with words that never appeared in it, prompting suggestions that AI was used. Judge Kemp admitted the mistake and the Judicial Office called it a "clerical mistake, error or omission", but refused to explain the cause. The Telegraph reports a second fabricated quotation.
AI-generated albums titled Roses Never Came appeared on December 10th on the official streaming accounts of Doc Watson, who died in 2012, and bluegrass group The Dillards, credited as written and performed by the artists, Saving Country Music reports. The site says the music is not theirs and likens it to a fake Don Williams album in November.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
At a Reading Employment Tribunal hearing on 1 December 2025, a claimant's representative cited "Adams v Wincanton Group Ltd [2013] IRLR 725", which neither Employment Judge Anstis nor opposing counsel could find. She accepted using AI to produce the document; the judge urged checking any AI-produced case law. The interim relief claim was dismissed on separate grounds.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
An appeals chamber in General Roca, Río Negro, found that four provincial high court precedents cited by a plaintiff's lawyers in a traffic-accident appeal could not be located, and inferred generative AI had been used without human control. On 12 December 2025 it rejected the appeal and, without imposing a sanction, issued a call for reflection.
A Regina senior says a caller who sounded exactly like her granddaughter asked for $6,875 in bail money, and she withdrew $7,000 before growing suspicious and calling police. Officers arrested a man and a woman from Quebec whom police say were behind frauds in Saskatoon, but are unsure whether AI voice cloning was used.
