U.S. District Judge Fred Slaughter in Santa Ana fined Hagens Berman and partner Robert Carey $10,000, and co-counsel Celeste Boyd $3,000, over four briefs containing AI-'hallucinated' material in a suit against OnlyFans' parent company. Boyd had said she used ChatGPT to draft and edit portions; Carey says outside co-counsel added the citations and no one at the firm used AI.
According to Koi researchers, Urban VPN Proxy and seven other extensions from the same publisher, with over 8 million users, have since a July 9, 2025 update captured users' conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other chatbots and sent them to Urban VPN's servers. Its privacy policy says AI prompts are disclosed 'for marketing analytics purposes'; the operator is affiliated with data broker BiScience.
South Korea's food and drug ministry says 12 food sellers used AI-generated 'fake doctors' and expert videos in ads claiming cures for cystitis or Wegovy-like effects, selling about 8.4 billion won of food. It referred them, along with four sellers of drug-mimicking products, for investigation, requested administrative action and blocked the posts.
Elyria police say two Rubin's Deli employees faked a robbery as a prank: Todd Durst, 45, said he made a ChatGPT image of masked robbers at the counter and sent it to Luis Acevedo Jr., 40, who passed it to the owner, who called police. Durst was charged with swatting and other offences; Acevedo Jr. fled and faces warrants.
Thomas Milton, 32, of Eston was jailed for three years at Teesside Crown Court after being found guilty of five counts of voyeurism for secretly filming women and teenage girls in a changing room and two women in their homes. He admitted making indecent pseudo-photographs of children, having used AI to make photos of clothed teenagers appear naked.
Spain's National Police arrested a man in Álava on 18 November, accused of producing child sexual abuse material with AI tools, allegedly by photographing minors in the street and at municipal pools and manipulating the images to undress them. Police sources say the investigation began in August and his advanced online anonymisation made him hard to locate.
Mumbai cyber police arrested four senior staff of Valueleaf India Services, including vice president Chandrashekar Naik, alleging they sold Facebook ad accounts to Chinese cybercriminals without verifying identities, despite Meta's warnings. Police say the accounts ran deepfake videos of a stock market expert promoting fake trading platforms, and that the accused received around Rs 3 crore.
Adam Erdman, 35, was sentenced on Dec. 15 to 28 months to 10 years in state prison after pleading guilty in September. Investigators said he used AI photo-editing software to make innocent vacation photos of two children appear naked. Officials say he is the first person convicted and sentenced under a new statute banning AI-generated child sex abuse material.
