West Midlands Police partly based its ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans at an Aston Villa match on reports of disruption at a West Ham fixture that never happened. Chief Constable Craig Guildford told MPs on 6 January "We do not use AI", wrote on 12 January that the error came from Microsoft Copilot, and retired on 16 January.
When a CBP official used ICE's Mobile Fortify facial recognition app twice on a woman detained in an Oregon raid last year, it returned two different names, according to testimony obtained by 404 Media; Innovation Law Lab, which represents her, says both were wrong. ICE has told lawmakers the app gives a "definitive" determination of immigration status.
An amended US authors' class action alleges, citing internal emails, that Nvidia contacted pirate library Anna's Archive and considered buying high-speed access to millions of pirated books despite a warning they were illegal, besides using Books3 to train models such as NeMo. There is so far no proof Nvidia bought anything; it has argued fair use.
Who did it: HUMAN Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF)
Unknown criminals posing by phone as a known business partner, their voice manipulated with AI, talked a business owner in the canton of Schwyz into several transfers totalling several million francs to a bank account in Asia over the past two weeks, Schwyz cantonal police say. The fraud was noticed only after the payments; investigations are ongoing.
Indonesian immigration officials say 27 foreign nationals from China and Vietnam, typically Chinese men, used AI to pose as women in a love-scam network run from housing estates in Tangerang, targeting mainly South Koreans living outside Indonesia. Arrests were made during an immigration operation between 8 and 16 January 2026.
In a vehicle-forfeiture ruling, Justice David S.L. Makumbi of Uganda's High Court Anti-Corruption Division said he could not find two cases cited by the respondent's counsel, suspected they came from unverified AI output or were "simply conjured up", and cautioned counsel against "irresponsible representation". The vehicle was forfeited to the state.
An AI-generated video showing Lord Shiva, Hanuman, Vishnu and Ganesha in black sunglasses riding in a Thar was posted from cricketer Rinku Singh's official Facebook account. Karni Sena district president Sumit Tomar filed a complaint at an Aligarh police station saying it hurt religious sentiments; police say they will first verify whether Singh made or uploaded it.
The Shree Jagannath Temple Administration in Puri filed a police complaint against the social media account "vishvrajcreation" for allegedly posting AI-generated photos and videos of Lord Jagannath, including one of milk being poured over the deity by crane. Temple officials said it was the first time AI had been used to create content dishonouring the deity.
A 1.53-minute clip shared on X shows Chief of Army Staff Gen. Upendra Dwivedi apparently telling a Zee News journalist that Donald Trump's intervention limited India's response in Operation Sindoor. Fact-checker BOOM found the English voice-over was AI-generated; at the original 13 January 2026 press conference, where the exchange was in Hindi, no such remark was made.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
Landlord firm Your Home Partners, seeking £5,000 in rent arrears at Kirkcaldy, cited tribunal decisions and lodged extracts from a "Small Claims (Scotland) Rules – Section 41a" that do not exist, saying it got them from online AI in good faith. Sheriff John A MacRitchie found some recklessness but no contempt, and dismissed the claim for lack of jurisdiction.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
A self-represented former employee of Nuvei Australia Merchant Services, who said a "legally trained" AI model helped present the case, cited Fair Work Commission decisions that Commissioner Redford found do not exist, noting some references may have been AI hallucinations. The applicant did not press them when queried; the unfair dismissal claim was dismissed.
