Google and Character.AI have agreed to settle a Florida mother's lawsuit alleging the startup's chatbot led to her teenage son's suicide, a court filing showed on Wednesday; terms were not immediately available. Court documents show the companies also settled related lawsuits by parents in Colorado, New York and Texas over harms allegedly caused to minors by chatbots.
Spain's Youth and Children Minister Sira Rego has asked the State Attorney General's Office to urgently investigate Grok, the AI on X, for alleged offences of distributing child sexual abuse material, citing media reports that it was undressing minors at users' request. She also cited a 2024 Badajoz juvenile court ruling convicting several people of using AI to manipulate images of girls and adolescents.
Indonesia's Communication and Digital Ministry is investigating allegations that Grok on X was misused to create and spread immoral content, including manipulating personal photos without consent. Official Alexander Sabar said on Wednesday that initial findings show Grok lacks specific rules to prevent pornographic content based on personal photos, warning non-compliance could bring sanctions including blocking Grok and X.
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said on Wednesday that Elon Musk's claims that OpenAI violated its founding mission by restructuring as a for-profit can go to a jury trial in March, saying there was "plenty of evidence" suggesting its leaders promised to keep the nonprofit structure. Musk says he contributed about $38 million; OpenAI, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman deny the claims.
A Bellingham city employee drafting a request for proposals for utility billing software asked ChatGPT to write requirements that would exclude one company and favor another, according to chat logs obtained through records requests by KNKX reporter Nate Sanford, and some of ChatGPT's wording made it in. The mayor says the city is bringing in an independent fact-finding investigator.
At a Dec. 10 oral argument in Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court, Judge Matthew Wolf detailed misquotes and nonexistent quotes in a brief by Thomas More Society counsel Thomas Breth and Thomas W. King III and asked whether it contained AI hallucinations. Breth said "This is incredibly embarrassing"; King has told WESA that AI was not used to draft briefs.
Tír-na-nOg GAA club in Portadown has warned parents after a young person in the community was sent realistic AI-made sexual images of their face on an AI body, with a threat to share them online unless money was paid, plus a list of their social media friends. The club says the young person told their parents and police were contacted.
A woman whose sister has been missing for six months got a Facebook message on Dec. 23 from someone claiming to have her sister and demanding $10,000 in bitcoin, along with a convincing AI-generated photo appearing to show the sister tied up in a van. She says she thought it was real; a police detective says AI use in extortion is rising.
Instagram and TikTok accounts purporting to depict a "Rabbi Menachem Goldberg", launched Dec. 29, have some 100,000 followers, some of whom appear duped, JNS reports. The videos feature synagogue backdrops, some with nonsensical Hebrew inscriptions, deliver platitudes about "abundance", misquote a Torah verse and direct viewers to buy publications priced $9.99 and $19.99.
