New York's Appellate Division, Third Department, fined lawyer Joshua A. Douglass $5,000 for no less than 23 fabricated cases across five filings and $2,500 more for 'blatant misrepresentations', noting more than half of the fake cases came after he was on notice. His client was fined $2,500 for a 'baseless' appeal. The court called it New York's first appellate case on GenAI sanctions.
xAI limited some of Grok's image generation and editing on X to paying subscribers on Friday, after users had it strip clothing from people in photos, often without consent, and post the results in replies. Users could still create sexualised images via the Grok tab, and the European Commission said the change did not address its concerns.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said she would back Ofcom if it blocked UK access to X under the Online Safety Act, after Grok digitally undressed people without consent. Ofcom said it was undertaking an expedited assessment, and Downing Street called X's move to limit the image tool to paying users "insulting" to victims of sexual violence.
Australia's eSafety Commissioner is investigating X over sexualised images generated by its Grok chatbot, with Julie Inman Grant saying reports involving adults and children had doubled since late last year. The agency said it had contacted X about safeguards and could use existing powers to "investigate and take appropriate action" against AI products lacking them.
Sens. Ron Wyden, Ed Markey and Ben Ray Luján asked Apple and Google on Thursday to remove X and Grok from their app stores after Grok was used to flood X with nonconsensual sexualised images of real people. Hours later X limited the reply bot's image generation to paying subscribers, which Wyden said only makes some users "pay for the privilege of producing horrific images".
A woman told WPVI her ex-boyfriend created an AI-generated text calling him names, which led to her arrest for violating a bond order not to contact him; "No one verified the evidence," she said. Prosecutors dropped that charge after eight months of legal wrangling, and she was later acquitted of the original battery charge.
A woman in Indore lost her savings of Rs 97,500 on January 6 after a caller sounding exactly like her cousin claimed to have credited her account and asked her to forward money for a friend's surgery. Police say preliminary investigation strongly suggests AI voice cloning, in what police sources call possibly Madhya Pradesh's first such case.
The Buzbee Law Firm has sued Jorge Abrego, a co-owner of HTX Tactical, and the company, seeking more than $10 million and alleging he ran fake TikTok accounts posting AI-generated sexual images of an influencer while posing as her trusted friend. Abrego, arrested in August 2025 and charged with online impersonation and unlawful production of sexually explicit videos, is out on $10,000 bond.
