January 2026
215 items on 30 days
Saturday, January 31, 2026
- HUMAN Deepfake minister video lures Singapore retiree into crypto scam The Straits Times
- HUMAN Women sue Arizona men over AI explicit 'influencer' ads 12news.com
- HUMAN Facial recognition stop preceded Global Entry revocation, lawsuit filing says Thrifty Traveler
- HUMAN Galician court orders firm to pay €53,766 over face-scan clock-ins EFE
- HUMAN Baytown man faces federal charge over AI-made child abuse videos Telemundo Houston
- HUMAN Judge leans toward dismissing xAI trade secrets suit against OpenAI Reuters
Thursday, January 29, 2026
- AI NHTSA opens probe after driverless Waymo hits child near school nhtsa.gov
- HUMAN Amazon's AI training data held suspected child abuse material Bloomberg
- HUMAN AI toy maker Bondu exposed 50,000 children's chat transcripts Wired
- HUMAN Koizumi warns of probable AI double on WeChat calls 日刊スポーツ
- HUMAN Ukraine warns of mass-produced AI videos mocking soldiers and police Укрінформ
- HYBRID Ontario paralegal ordered to pay $2,000 over phantom citations AI Hallucination Cases database
- HUMAN Yasmin Abdelaziz says she has sued over AI-faked images صحيفة السوسنة الأردنية
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
- HUMAN Illinois man charged in Wisconsin over AI-generated child pornography WISN
- HUMAN Fake vet call used AI-made puppy photo, Florida couple says FOX 13 Tampa Bay
- HUMAN Music publishers sue Anthropic again, alleging pirated lyrics Reuters
- HUMAN Lawmaker says Nvidia helped DeepSeek train models China's military used The Business Times
- HUMAN MS NOW swaps thumbnail after airing AI-enhanced Alex Pretti image InfoWars
- HYBRID Reno officer concedes casino facial-recognition arrest was wrongful Casino.org
- HYBRID Phoenix facial-recognition cold-case murder charge quietly dismissed ABC15 Arizona in Phoenix (KNXV)
- HUMAN Halifax man, 69, charged over AI-generated child abuse images CTVNews
- HUMAN Maryland federal judge orders lawyer to explain apparently fake citations AI Hallucination Cases database
- AI Chinese court finds developer not liable for chatbot's invented campus #SixthTone
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
- HUMAN Acting US cyber chief reportedly uploaded sensitive files to ChatGPT Politico
- HUMAN Filing alleges Zuckerberg overrode staff on sexual chatbots for minors Reuters
- HUMAN Filings show Anthropic quietly sliced up millions of books The Washington Post
- HYBRID Watchdog finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple, Google stores Tech Transparency Project
- AI Common Sense Media rates Grok among worst for child safety TechCrunch
- HUMAN Taiwan photographer indicted over AI fake nudes of five women Central News Agency
- HUMAN Delhi court halts AI film using Pawan Kalyan's son's likeness India Today
- HYBRID NY judge fines lawyers over copied brief with nonexistent cases AI Hallucination Cases database
- HUMAN Venezuela arrests alleged Generación Zoe algorithm chief El Liberal
Monday, January 26, 2026
- HUMAN TikToker Alina Amir offers reward over AI-generated 'leaked' video 24 News HD
- HYBRID EU investigates X over Grok's sexualised deepfake images Reuters
- HYBRID xAI hit with class action over Grok sexual deepfakes Bloomberg Law
- AI Google agrees to pay $68m over Assistant recording claims BBC
- HUMAN YouTubers sue Snap over AI trained on their videos TechCrunch
- HUMAN Illinois lawsuit accuses DHS of face-scanning citizen minors Biometric Update
- HYBRID Judge sanctions lawyer $4,000 over AI-generated fake citations AI Hallucination Cases database
- HYBRID Andhra Pradesh High Court upholds order with AI-invented citations Verdictum
- HYBRID 'Hallucinated' citations earn pro se defendant a warning, not sanctions AI Hallucination Cases database
- HYBRID Florida court warns pro se plaintiff over nonexistent case citations AI Hallucination Cases database
Sunday, January 25, 2026
- HUMAN ED chargesheets WinZO, alleging bots cost players ₹734 crore Mint
- HYBRID AI-altered images distort Minneapolis killing of a nurse The New York Times
- HYBRID Home Office game's 'Amelia' becomes AI-made far-right meme The Guardian
- HUMAN Phishers dangle fake 'OpenAI Advertising GPT' beta at marketers PPC Land
Saturday, January 24, 2026
- HYBRID Scammers pose as King Philippe, likely using AI video RTBF
- HYBRID AI-generated 'CEO' suitors lure older women into sales pitches 新浪网
- HUMAN Pro-unification AI video puts schoolgirls in all-boys Jianguo High NOWnews 今日新聞
- HUMAN Florence Ajimobi calls viral Oyo election video an AI deepfake The Eagle Online
- HUMAN Markup job ad draws AI-slop applicants and a recruiter scam The Markup
- HUMAN Police arrest two over job scam using fake Naidu voice clip NewsMeter
Friday, January 23, 2026
- HYBRID 35 attorneys general demand X curb Grok's sexual deepfakes OAG DC (.gov)
- HYBRID Woman says X users had Grok sexualise her photos O Globo
- HYBRID Fee-dispute client wins motion, loses costs over AI-invented cases AI Hallucination Cases database
- HYBRID Judge finds 'troubling pattern' of false assertions, holds off sanctions AI Hallucination Cases database
- HYBRID North Korea-aligned hackers deploy neatly commented AI-written backdoor cybersecuritynews.com
- HYBRID Deepal CEO vows crackdown on flood of AI-written rival comparisons 快科技
- HUMAN Tennessee judge strikes fabricated case law, cautions on sanctions AI Hallucination Cases database
Thursday, January 22, 2026
- HYBRID Analyses estimate Grok posted millions of sexualized images on X The New York Times
- HUMAN White House posts altered photo of arrested protester crying The New York Times
- HUMAN Man arrested in Burgos over AI sexual videos of disabled woman Europa Press
- HYBRID Researchers say one developer built VoidLink malware with AI agents Cybernews
- HUMAN Northern Cyprus judge grants leave to challenge altered conviction ruling AI Hallucination Cases database
- HUMAN Georgia court refers lawyer to State Bar over fictive quotations AI Hallucination Cases database
- HYBRID Tel Aviv court strikes claim citing six nonexistent rulings AI Hallucination Cases database
- AI Common Sense Media finds AI toys gave unsafe answers in tests Education Week
- HUMAN Android trojan uses TensorFlow.js models to click ads, Dr.Web says Security Affairs
- HUMAN Five arrested in Mirzapur over alleged AI blackmail clips Bhaskar English
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
- HUMAN Eightfold AI sued for allegedly scoring job seekers in secret Reuters
- HYBRID Connecticut lawyer accused of AI-fabricated citations, sanctions sought CT Insider
- HYBRID Tour site's AI sends Tasmania visitors to nonexistent hot springs ABC News (Australia)
- HUMAN Japan arrests man over 520,000 AI porn deepfakes of celebrities Cybernews
- HUMAN Polish voice actor sues over AI clone in septic tank ad GazetaPrawna.pl
- HYBRID Bengaluru judgment ships with chatbot-style 'Just say the word' AI Hallucination Cases database
- HYBRID Massachusetts judge refers lawyer to bar over phantom citations AI Hallucination Cases database
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
- HYBRID Brazil gives xAI 30 days over Grok's sexualised fakes Reuters
- AI Grok app still undresses women despite xAI's announced curbs O Globo
- HYBRID Brazilian police raid suspects in AI video-call notary fraud ND Mais
- HYBRID AI-made monk Yang Mun draws millions, sells wellness e-books Eurovision News Spotlight
- HYBRID Gao Xiaosong disowns sales videos using AI-cloned voice ycwb.com
- HUMAN Texas judge cautions patent lawyer over AI-suspect citations AI Hallucination Cases database
- HUMAN B.C. court docks self-represented litigants $200 for fake AI cases AI Hallucination Cases database
- HUMAN Washington federal judge strikes pro se filings over fictitious citations AI Hallucination Cases database
Monday, January 19, 2026
- HYBRID West Midlands police chief retires after Copilot-invented match The Register
- HYBRID ICE face-scan app returns two different names for detained woman 404 Media
- HUMAN Authors accuse Nvidia of seeking pirated books from Anna's Archive 01net
- HUMAN AI-disguised voice tricks Schwyz business owner out of millions Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF)
- HUMAN Love-scam ring used AI to pose as women, Indonesia says Kompas.com
- HUMAN Ugandan judge cautions counsel over untraceable, possibly AI-made cases AI Hallucination Cases database
- HUMAN Karni Sena complains to police over AI deity video on Rinku Singh's account News18
- HUMAN Puri temple files police complaint over AI videos of Jagannath NewsDrum
- HUMAN Deepfake voice puts Trump remark in Indian army chief's mouth BOOM
- HYBRID Sheriff spares landlords contempt over AI-invented rules and cases AI Hallucination Cases database
- HYBRID Fair Work Commission finds AI-assisted applicant's cited decisions don't exist AI Hallucination Cases database
Sunday, January 18, 2026
- HYBRID Arizona attorney general opens investigation into Grok chatbot KTAR News 92.3 FM
- HUMAN Renato Aragão's daughter denounces AI video suggesting domestic violence Contigo!
- HUMAN Deepfake Reinhold Würth pitches dubious investments on Facebook SWR Aktuell
Saturday, January 17, 2026
- HUMAN Musk seeks up to $134 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft Reuters
- HUMAN Photography guide turns out nearly half AI, six fingers included 中国青年报
- HUMAN Kate Garraway says AI fakes invented her a boyfriend Daily Mirror
Friday, January 16, 2026
- HYBRID Mother of Musk's child sues xAI over Grok deepfakes Associated Press
- HYBRID California AG orders xAI to halt Grok sexual deepfakes Insurance Journal
- HUMAN EPA rules xAI's Memphis datacenter turbines need air permits The Guardian
- HUMAN League City police post AI-sharpened mugshot, then review policy ABC13 Houston
- HUMAN Five women sue Chula Vista over alleged AI explicit images San Diego Union-Tribune
- HYBRID Bombay High Court imposes ₹50,000 costs over case nobody could find Live Law
- HUMAN Fake AI crypto trading gang gets prison terms on appeal 연합뉴스TV
- HYBRID Arizona judge refers document preparer Clearpoint to bar and AG over apparent AI-hallucinated filings Reason Magazine
Thursday, January 15, 2026
- HYBRID Canada's privacy commissioner opens probe into Grok deepfakes CHEK
- HYBRID Philippines moves to block Grok over explicit deepfakes INQUIRER.net
- HYBRID Grok app still undresses photos after X curbs its bot The Washington Post
- HUMAN Hachette and Cengage ask to join AI training suit against Google Reuters
- HUMAN West Virginia man charged over AI abuse videos of children WV MetroNews
- HYBRID Irish AI minister warns X of 'full rigours of the law' over Grok The Irish Times
- HUMAN Fake AI doctors pitch weight-loss patches in Guy's and St Thomas' name BBC
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
- HYBRID California AG opens investigation into xAI over Grok sexual images State of California
- HYBRID Police watchdog hears Copilot invented match cited in Maccabi ban GOV.UK
- HYBRID ICE résumé AI mistook 'compliance officers' for police, officials say NBC News
- HYBRID Gardaí probe 200 reports of Grok-linked child abuse material The Irish Times
- HYBRID Malaysian regulator moves to sue X and xAI over Grok TRP
- HYBRID South Korean watchdog asks X to shield minors from Grok Yonhap News Agency
- HUMAN Microsoft and European police take down RedVDS fraud service euronews
- HUMAN Shanghai court hears appeal of AI companion app obscenity convictions 新浪网
- HUMAN Spanish education inspectors examine AI-altered images of schoolgirls La Rioja
- HUMAN Cyberabad police register case against 42 over AI-generated vulgar posts The Times of India
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
- AI Lawsuit says ChatGPT used 'Goodnight Moon' to romanticise suicide Futurism
- HUMAN Albuquerque man charged over AI-made child abuse images KUNM
- HUMAN FTC sues JustAnswer over AI chatbot's alleged subscription trap NPR
- HUMAN Brazil orders Meta to pause WhatsApp ban on rival chatbots TechCrunch
- HUMAN Flock accused of trying to take down HaveIBeenFlocked website Straight Arrow
- HYBRID Judge vacates Rule 11 finding but keeps fake-citation brief stricken AI Hallucination Cases database
- HUMAN Student stalker made AI chatbot versions of college staff Devon Live
- HYBRID French children's commissioner refers Grok nude images to Brussels Le Figaro
Monday, January 12, 2026
- HYBRID Ofcom investigates X over Grok sexual deepfakes Reuters
- AI Judge sends Google AI libel suit back to state court Reason Magazine
- HUMAN Sergipe police indict man over AI porn of 12 women globo.com
- HUMAN Voice union demands takedown of lewd AI KochiKame dub Liberty Times
- HUMAN Meteorologist sues Scripps, saying it shrugged off deepfakes of her Human Resources Director
- HYBRID Judge warns lawyer over apparently AI-generated phantom case law AI Hallucination Cases database
- HYBRID Jindi Chocolate apologises for suggestive post, cites ad auto-optimisation 手机新浪网
- HUMAN Teen's lawsuit against ClothOff slowed by difficulty finding app's owners TechCrunch
Sunday, January 11, 2026
- HYBRID Malaysia regulator temporarily bans Grok over obscene image abuse BERNAMA
- HYBRID X admits Grok moderation errors after Indian government warning Money Bhaskar
- AI Google pulls some AI health summaries after Guardian investigation The Guardian
- HYBRID Family sues Tesla, blaming Autopilot for fatal motorcycle crash KOMO
- HYBRID Israeli court denies winning contractor costs over nonexistent case law AI Hallucination Cases database
- HUMAN Ontario woman loses $1.7 million to Musk deepfake crypto scam Yahoo! Finance Canada
- HUMAN Over 500 Irish college students caught misusing AI in coursework RTE.ie
Saturday, January 10, 2026
- HYBRID Indonesia temporarily blocks Grok, the first country to do so Reuters
- HUMAN Huazhu photo contest swaps its winner after AI-image claims 新浪网
- HUMAN Foinikounta murder suspect calls his ChatGPT revolver queries a joke BEST TV Καλαμάτα
- HUMAN AI deepfake of Clark Howard pitches car insurance tool WSB-TV Channel 2
- HUMAN Hanoi man charged over AI giant python video VnExpress
Friday, January 9, 2026
- HYBRID New York appeals court fines lawyer $7,500 over 23 fake cases and misrepresentations THE FREE LANCE NEWS
- HYBRID Grok limits some image generation on X to paying subscribers Reuters
- HYBRID UK minister says X could face ban over Grok deepfakes BBC
- HYBRID Australia's eSafety Commissioner investigates X over Grok sexualised images Brisbane Times
- HYBRID Senators urge Apple, Google to drop X and Grok apps NBC News
- HUMAN Woman says ex-boyfriend's AI-faked text got her arrested 6abc Philadelphia
- HUMAN Cloned cousin's voice costs Indore woman Rs 97,500 savings The New Indian Express
- HUMAN Alleged deepfake campaign brings Houston man $10M lawsuit Texas Scorecard
Thursday, January 8, 2026
- HYBRID Brussels orders X to keep every Grok record through 2026 Euractiv
- AI Kentucky attorney general sues Character.AI maker over harm to children Kentucky Lantern
- HYBRID Dark web users credit Grok for child abuse imagery, watchdog says NBC News
- HUMAN Judge finds Cleveland detective hid Clearview AI role in warrant cleveland
- HYBRID Name spread with apparent Grok 'unmasking' of ICE agent sends anger at wrong men NPR
- HYBRID Grok bikini-edits photo of woman shot dead that morning Mother Jones
- HYBRID Grok used to put Crans-Montana fire victims in bikinis franceinfo
- HYBRID Ghent rector's speech quoted Einstein saying something AI made up VRTNWS
- HUMAN French MP deletes apparently AI-made image of Maduro's wife Le Figaro
- HUMAN Ministry warns of AI-faked minister pitching nonexistent UTE investment EL PAIS
Wednesday, January 7, 2026
- AI Google and Character.AI agree to settle teen suicide lawsuit Reuters
- HYBRID Spanish minister asks prosecutors to investigate Grok over child imagery Europa Press
- HYBRID Indonesia probes Grok, warns of blocking it and X Antara News
- HUMAN Judge says Musk's OpenAI for-profit lawsuit can go to jury Reuters
- HUMAN Bellingham staffer allegedly used ChatGPT to rig contract bid KUOW
- HYBRID Pennsylvania judge asks if error-filled brief had AI hallucinations Spotlight PA
- HUMAN Portadown GAA club warns parents of AI sexual-image blackmail Armagh I
- HUMAN Scammer uses AI image of missing woman in extortion attempt Global News
- HUMAN 'Rabbi' account with nonsense Hebrew appears to dupe followers JNS
Tuesday, January 6, 2026
- HYBRID Amazon lists shops' products for AI agent without consent, retailers say CNBC
- HUMAN AI images put Guéret candidates in swimsuits, hand in hand La Montagne
- HUMAN Kansas judge demands lawyer explain quotes missing from cited cases AI Hallucination Cases database
- HYBRID Georgia court dismisses suit over AI-invented citations, adds $2,632 bill AI Hallucination Cases database
- HYBRID Judge makes lawyer and client pay for AI-invented testimony Reason Magazine
- HYBRID AI-made NWS wind map invents Idaho town of 'Whata Bod' The Washington Post
- HUMAN AI image of burning Soweto school prompts EMS warning EWN
- HUMAN Musk reshares AI-made clip of Venezuelans celebrating Maduro's capture Fact Check
- HUMAN Viral Reddit delivery 'whistleblower' backed claims with AI fakes Platformer
Monday, January 5, 2026
- AI ChatGPT coached teen on drug doses before fatal overdose SFGATE
- HUMAN Judge affirms OpenAI must surrender 20 million ChatGPT logs Bloomberg Law
- HYBRID Grok generates sexualised images of women and minors on X, drawing global probes euronews
- HYBRID Ashley St Clair weighs legal action over Grok fake images The Guardian
- HYBRID Canary Islands court to investigate lawyer over apparently AI-invented rulings elDiario.es
- HUMAN Deepfake priests and pastors pitch scams to the faithful Wired
- HUMAN Brazilian right-wing politicians spread MST video threatening US; MST says it is AI fake Terra
- HUMAN Thirteen phantom citations raise appellant's costs bill in Saskatchewan AI Hallucination Cases database
Sunday, January 4, 2026
- HYBRID Erika Hilton asks Brazilian authorities to investigate X over Grok Poder360
- AI Tencent apologises after Yuanbao AI berates user over code edits 新浪网
- HUMAN Idaho judge warns pro se litigant over apparently fabricated case quotes AI Hallucination Cases database
Saturday, January 3, 2026
- HUMAN Deepfake George Will videos invent Supreme Court deadline for Trump Snopes
- HYBRID AI-invented case law turns up in London parking appeals The Standard
Friday, January 2, 2026
- HYBRID Grok undresses women on request, sexualizes children, Reuters finds Reuters
- HYBRID India gives X 72 hours to explain Grok's obscene images The Times of India
- AI Google AI Overviews get cancer and liver advice wrong The Guardian
- HUMAN Musician sues Stability AI, says opt-out requests were denied Digital Music News
- HUMAN Bihar man arrested over AI fakes of Modi and Murmu PTI
- AI French rights defender finds platform's job-ad algorithm discriminates by sex Diffusion ... Catalogue en ligne
- HYBRID Arizona appeals court refers lawyer to bar over hallucinated quotes AI Hallucination Cases database
- HYBRID Rick Silanskas accused of AI-written filings in theme park case NonDoc
- HUMAN Javed Akhtar weighs police complaint over AI piety video ANI
Thursday, January 1, 2026
- HYBRID Utah man sues Tesla over Autosteer crash that killed four The Independent
- HYBRID Israeli Supreme Court makes litigant pay 500 shekels for phantom precedents AI Hallucination Cases database
- HUMAN Takeout customers reportedly using AI to fake ruined meals for refunds New York Post