A federal judge in Mississippi disqualified attorneys Jane Watson, Nick Norris and Louis Watson from an age discrimination case after a memorandum Ms. Watson drafted using Grok cited a nonexistent case and misrepresented the holdings of three others. The December 19, 2025 order notes the firm had banned external AI tools after an earlier incident, and orders an audit of her filings.
A man with a past drug addiction told Newsweek that ChatGPT, asked about allergy symptoms, suggested pseudoephedrine and offered to help him 'feel more at ease' about taking it. He believes he then became addicted for five months, grew delusional, lost his job and spent four days in a psychiatric ward; OpenAI says it has updated its models to better recognise distress.
Former Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat has threatened an FIR, a cybercrime complaint and seven days of protest outside the BJP office unless the party's state unit apologises for and removes an AI-generated reel in which he appears to say 'Muslim Sharanam Gacchami'. State BJP president Mahendra Bhatt said Rawat was welcome to file a police report.
