xAI's Grok answered questions about the Bondi Beach shooting, in which at least eleven people were killed at a Hanukkah gathering, with wrong answers, Gizmodo reports. It called video of a bystander tackling a shooter an old clip of a man climbing a palm tree, and labelled police shootout footage as Tropical Cyclone Alfred. xAI's automated reply: “Legacy Media Lies.”
Springer Nature is selling Social, Ethical and Legal Aspects of Generative AI for £125, and The Times found dozens of citations that appear invented, including one to a “Harvard AI Journal”. An analysis by Guillaume Cabanac using BibCheck found 8 of 11 references in chapter 4 untraceable; Springer Nature says its research integrity team is investigating as a priority.
India's Press Information Bureau Fact Check said on Sunday that a doctored, AI-generated video of former army chief General Ved Prakash Malik (Retd), pushed by Pakistan-based propaganda accounts, falsely showed him praising Pakistan's military and admitting Rafale and S-400 losses during Operation Sindoor. PIB shared the original clip, in which he says India has better weapons.
Lalit Kumar was arrested in Uttar Pradesh on December 10, 2025, accused by police of posing as an IAS officer named Gaurav Kumar and cheating more than 40 people across multiple states using AI-generated newspaper clippings, fake tender documents and doctored photos. Police say the fraud surfaced when a real SDM asked about his batch and cadre; two associates were also arrested.
Israel's Supreme Court rejected a self-represented litigant's bid to appeal a harassment-order ruling after the applicant, who intends to become a lawyer, again cited rulings that do not exist and accused the district judge who had flagged the first batch of citing wrong case numbers. Justice Gila Kanfi-Steinitz ordered ₪3,000 in costs to the State Treasury.
An Examiner reporter used TikTok's own AI ad tools to make, within minutes and for free, a 15-second ad in which an AI voice promotes weight-loss supplements that “haven't been tested”, unflagged during creation. TikTok says Symphony-made ads are labelled AI-generated and must pass moderation, and that it removes content breaching its weight-loss policies.
A Scottish Qualifications Authority report shows penalties for exam cheats rose to 207 in 2025 from 173; of 69 pupils caught plagiarising, 43 used artificial intelligence, down from 51 of 92 the year before. The SQA says it will adapt its processes, particularly in response to the increasing prevalence of AI technologies.
An account called "King Lizard Wizard" uploaded what appeared to be AI-generated versions of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard songs, with the same titles and lyrics, to Spotify, which the band left in July. The tracks reached Release Radar playlists and tens of thousands of streams before Spotify removed them, saying no royalties were paid.
