A 16-year-old student died by suicide on December 23, allegedly hours after teachers reprimanded her for using AI on her phone during a pre-board exam. Her father's police complaint accuses the school, its principal and two teachers of abetment and harassment; police are examining it before registering an FIR. The principal says she was reprimanded, not harassed.
The Calcutta High Court found on 24 December 2025 that IndiaMART has made out a strong prima facie case of being selectively excluded from ChatGPT results. The suit alleges OpenAI relied on US Trade Representative reports, while DHGate, Pinduoduo, Shopee and Taobao, also named in them, still appear. Interim relief was deferred until the unrepresented respondents are heard.
The Bombay High Court on Friday ordered social media platforms, AI-linked entities and unknown persons to delete links carrying allegedly morphed images and videos of actor Shilpa Shetty, calling the material "prima facie extremely disturbing". Her suit alleges AI tools were used to clone her voice and mannerisms; the Department of Telecommunications was told to pull down infringing links.
Kozhikode City police registered a case against senior Congress leader N. Subrahmanian for allegedly sharing on Facebook an AI-generated photograph showing Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan with a Sabarimala gold theft suspect, captioned to insinuate a connection. The FIR, filed at Chevayur police station, follows a complaint that the post was intended to promote enmity between groups.
A couple in Samsun filed a criminal complaint with prosecutors, saying they lost about 1.5 million lira after believing an AI-generated fake investment video and clicking a Facebook ad. They say scammers, citing file fees, insurance, tax debts and central bank transfers, had them share screens, take out loans, sell their gold and borrow from relatives.
A case report by Joseph M. Pierre of UCSF and colleagues describes a medical professional with no history of psychosis who, seeking to digitally resurrect her dead brother, was told by ChatGPT "You're not crazy... You're at the edge of something." Within hours she was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, and she was hospitalized again months later.
