Beijing lawyer Huang Guigeng is suing Baidu for 1 million yuan in professional reputation losses plus 50,000 yuan, saying its AI invented claims that he threatened judges, brokered bribes and forged seals. At the 6 February hearing, Baidu argued that AI hallucination is common across the industry, cannot yet be eliminated, was not intentional and was partly caused by the plaintiff's own repeated searches.
Police in Batman say four suspects used AI to pose as MİT personnel and allegedly took 1.5 million TL from a convict by promising to have their case overturned. After the four were detained in Diyarbakır on 4 February, two were remanded in custody and two were released under judicial control.
Businessman Naguib Sawiris called on X for a swift law criminalising AI forgery and impersonation. He had earlier warned that ads on Facebook and other platforms used his and his brother Nassef's pictures and AI-imitated voices to promote income-boosting services, saying he had reported them to the internet police and legal action was under way.
In a February 3 tentative ruling, U.S. District Judge George Wu indicated that Alcon Entertainment's copyright claim against Tesla and Elon Musk can proceed, overruling their motion to dismiss. Alcon alleges that an AI-generated image shown for 11 seconds at the 2024 Cybercab unveiling mimicked a Blade Runner 2049 poster after Alcon refused permission to use the film's images.
Activists John Wangal, Peter Agoro and Antony Manyara petitioned the High Court in Kerugoya to stop Kenya's ICT officials deploying "high-risk" AI systems without safeguards, citing threats to privacy, equality and the 2027 elections. Judge Edward M. Muriithi certified the case urgent but declined interim orders, setting a full hearing for Feb. 19, 2026.
A man told Slate that over four months of seeking advice from chatbots such as ChatGPT, he lost his job, emptied his savings and ended up living in a van. He found himself wandering the dunes of Christmas Valley, Oregon, after an AI told him to "follow the pattern" of his consciousness. He says it "inflated my worldview and my view of myself."
