Fraudsters phoned a Roorkee man, claimed the man's son had been detained over a gang-rape and murder, and played a clip closely resembling the son's voice pleading for help, police said. The victim transferred Rs 6 lakh, partly borrowed from relatives, before learning the son was at home. A cheating case has been registered under the BNS.
Actor Ayesha Khan told Pinkvilla she has seen several realistic AI-morphed pictures of herself on social media, including a photo turned into an AI video of her hugging someone, which she said never happened. She called it "very scary" that "a whole app" had been made "to sexualise women on the internet".
Kenosha County Circuit Court Judge David Hughes sanctioned District Attorney Xavier Solis for failing to disclose AI use after the defense said a state reply contained "AI hallucinations." The 74 charges against two men were dismissed without prejudice on Feb. 6, on substantive grounds according to a defense lawyer, and Solis said the issue "was identified and acknowledged."
Since Acclarent added AI to its TruDi Navigation System in 2021, the FDA has received unconfirmed reports of at least 100 malfunctions and adverse events, including at least 10 injuries, Reuters reports. Two stroke victims have sued in Texas alleging the AI contributed; Integra LifeSciences, which bought Acclarent in 2024, says there is "no credible evidence" of a causal connection.
A 10th Circuit panel on Feb. 9 ordered Kusmin Linda Amarsingh, a lawyer representing herself in a discrimination suit against Frontier Airlines, to pay the airline $1,000 after her filing cited seven nonexistent cases. Amarsingh admitted relying on ChatGPT; the court directed that the order be sent to Maryland attorney regulators and upheld dismissal of her suit.
Nassau County Judge Randy Sue Marber ruled Jan. 28 that Adelphi University's finding that a student used AI to plagiarize an essay, and its denial of his appeal, were "without valid basis and devoid of reason," ordering his record expunged. Turnitin had rated the essay 100% AI-generated; the judge found two other detectors calling it human-written were never considered.
South Korea's National Election Commission said Feb. 9 that a local election body had filed the first police complaint under a 2023 deepfake provision, against a prospective candidate who allegedly posted an unlabelled AI video falsely claiming a famous foreign weekly had named them a figure to lead development. The candidate was also fined 5 million won for not labelling it.
The European Commission sent Meta a chargesheet setting out its preliminary view that Meta breached EU antitrust rules with a WhatsApp Business Solution policy barring providers whose primary service is AI, and said it is considering quickly imposing interim measures to preserve rivals' access. Meta says there is "no reason for the EU to intervene" in the WhatsApp Business API.
