Former NPR 'Morning Edition' host David Greene has sued Google in Santa Clara County Superior Court, alleging the male voice in NotebookLM's AI podcasts replicates his own without payment or permission; the complaint cites an unnamed forensic firm's 53 to 60 percent confidence that his voice trained the model. Google calls the allegations baseless and says the voice is based on a paid professional actor.
Ars Technica has apologised for an article, published on a Friday afternoon, that contained quotations generated by an AI tool and attributed to Scott Shambaugh, who did not say them. The outlet called it a serious failure of standards, noted its policy bars AI-generated material unless clearly labelled for demonstration, and said a review of recent work found no other issues.
Twenty-eight KPMG Australia personnel used AI to cheat on internal exams this financial year, the Financial Review reports, including a partner who uploaded a reference manual into an AI tool to answer an exam question in an AI training course. An internal investigation determined the partner should be fined more than $10,000 of future income; Chartered Accountants ANZ is investigating.
According to police, an Augsburg car dealer sent a woman who had sold him her used car an apparently AI-generated image of it in flames, claimed previously disclosed damage caused the fire and demanded the purchase price back. Meanwhile she found the undamaged car listed for sale by him online. Police are investigating him for attempted fraud.
