The daily rap sheet of the machine age.
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Britain's media regulator Ofcom opened an investigation into Elon Musk's X on 12 January over concerns its Grok chatbot was creating sexually intimate deepfakes, citing reports of illegal non-consensual intimate images and child sexual abuse material. X says it removes illegal content, and that it has restricted requests to undress people in images to paying users.
Original report: Ofcom investigates X over Grok sexual deepfakes
A Minnesota solar installer, Wolf River Electric, claims Google's AI Overviews falsely said it faced a Minnesota attorney general lawsuit, citing sources that said no such thing. Federal judge Jeffrey Bryan ruled Google moved the case to federal court too late, having held a letter claiming $24.7 million in damages since March 14, 2025, and remanded it to state court.
Original report: Judge sends Google AI libel suit back to state court archived copy of Judge sends Google AI libel suit back to state court
Police in Sergipe, Brazil, have indicted a 21-year-old man for aggravated defamation and disseminating pornography after AI-made fake images and videos of 12 women he knew appeared on a porn site, built from their social media photos. He told police it was meant as a joke; police say that does not diminish the crimes' gravity.
Original report: Sergipe police indict man over AI porn of 12 women
A video posted online used AI to make the Mandarin dub voices of the anime KochiKame deliver new, crude lines, including one suggesting the station chief has erectile dysfunction. The Taipei voice actors' union called unauthorised AI use of performers' voices infringement and demanded removal, not ruling out legal action.
Original report: Voice union demands takedown of lewd AI KochiKame dub
In a federal suit filed December 29, 2025, a former TV meteorologist alleges Scripps Media ignored years of harassment, ran a supposedly neutral investigation using its own employee, and retaliated. When she received sexually suggestive AI-generated images bearing her face in October 2024, a manager allegedly told her "the laws have not caught up with the technology."
Original report: Meteorologist sues Scripps, saying it shrugged off deepfakes of her archived copy of Meteorologist sues Scripps, saying it shrugged off deepfakes of her
In Wurtenberg v. City of New York, Justice James d'Auguste of the New York County Supreme Court found the plaintiff's opposition cited non-existent authority and cases that do not stand for what they were cited for, "consistent with the misuse of a generative artificial intelligence program." D'Auguste declined sanctions absent a formal motion, but warned counsel that next time there would be some.
Original report: Judge warns lawyer over apparently AI-generated phantom case law
Jindi Chocolate apologised on January 12 after marketing for its golden bear chocolates was accused of being suggestive. It said the automatic optimisation feature of Xiaohongshu's Qianfan ad platform had split and recombined a post meant to say the bears were a 1:1 replica, but took core responsibility for not checking the final display, and for initially hiding it.
Original report: Jindi Chocolate apologises for suggestive post, cites ad auto-optimisation archived copy of Jindi Chocolate apologises for suggestive post, cites ad auto-optimisation
A Yale Law School clinic sued ClothOff's operators in October for a New Jersey high school student whose classmates used the app to alter Instagram photos taken when she was underage, making them legally child abuse imagery. Local authorities declined to prosecute; lawyers are still serving defendants in an operation co-lead counsel John Langford believes is run by a brother and sister in Belarus.
Original report: Teen's lawsuit against ClothOff slowed by difficulty finding app's owners
