A police report drafted by Draft One, AI software Heber City police were testing, claimed an officer had turned into a frog. Sgt. Keel said the body cam and report-writing software had picked up "The Princess and the Frog" playing in the background: "That's when we learned the importance of correcting these AI-generated reports."
Acting on a defamation suit by Adani Enterprises, an Ahmedabad civil court ordered the Indian National Congress and leaders Jairam Ramesh, Supriya Shrinate, Pawan Khera and Uday Bhanu Chib to take down a deepfake video of Narendra Modi and Gautam Adani within 48 hours, and X Corp and Google within 72. A show cause notice seeks their replies by December 29.
Judge Leo Gordon reprimanded attorney Tyrone Blackburn, who represents a woman suing Sean Combs over alleged sexual assault, after Blackburn admitted using AI that supplied hallucinated case law he put in a response brief without verifying, Billboard reports. He was fined $6,000 and ordered to notify bar associations in New York and New Jersey.
A South Korean appeals court sentenced a 19-year-old former student to three years in prison for using AI deepfakes to put the faces of two high school teachers and others onto nude images and posting them on social media. Tried as a minor at first instance, he had received a one-to-one-and-a-half-year indeterminate term; the court likened the crime to 'character murder'.
Intezer attributes a campaign using a malicious Excel XLL add-in and a new backdoor it calls EchoGather to Paper Werewolf (aka GOFFEE), a group targeting Russian organisations. One decoy, a concert invitation for high-ranking officers, was AI-generated: its double-headed-eagle stamp came out as a distorted, bird-like figure, and its text misspelled words and swapped Cyrillic letters.
Illinois-based independent musicians filed a proposed class action in federal court against China's Kunlun Tech and Singapore's Skywork AI, alleging their Mureka song generator was trained on recordings copied without permission and lets users upload any song as a 'reference track'. The complaint also alleges violations of the DMCA and Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act.
A federal judge in Mississippi ordered Greta Kemp Martin, former litigation director of Disability Rights Mississippi, to pay Palmer Home $20,883.10 and take a three-hour CLE course on AI hallucinatory citations, finding she acted in bad faith over three fabricated cases and six fake quotes. Martin denied using AI; the court said it was 'highly suspicious' she had.
A deepfake video of Rajya Sabha MP Sudha Murty urging viewers to click a link for 'investment opportunities' circulated on social media; the link led to a fake news-style site that tries to steal personal details. On December 19 Murty said it was fake, 'driven by AI and a cunning mind', and that she never talks about investments.
Hamburg police said on December 18 that a growing number of social media profiles show AI-generated young women in police uniforms posing as serving officers, drawing tens of thousands of followers, some willing to pay for further images. Spokesman Florian Abbenseth said the profiles damage the force's reputation; legal steps are being examined.
A Florida grandmother says she lost about $200,000, all her savings, after a Facebook video of a doctor she recognised and trusted urged viewers to join an investment opportunity; the video was an AI deepfake. She says the scammer gained access to her online banking. She has filed a report with the local sheriff's office.
