ByteDance says it is "taking steps to strengthen current safeguards" on its Seedance 2.0 video tool after Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter accusing it of a "virtual smash-and-grab" of Marvel and Star Wars characters. The Motion Picture Association and Sag-Aftra have also complained, and Japan's government has launched an investigation into potential copyright violations.
Colombia's Supreme Court fined lawyer Jorge Hernán Zapata Vargas 26 million pesos for a review appeal citing laws and rulings that do not exist; he acknowledged the errors were "possibly" from an AI program. The court found "procedural recklessness", warned of "pseudo-law" and referred him to Bogotá's judicial disciplinary commission.
The Lok Sabha Secretariat has sent breach-of-privilege and contempt-of-House notices to nine members of Congress's communication department, including Jairam Ramesh, Pawan Khera, Supriya Shrinate and Sanjeev Singh, over an AI-generated video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Speaker Om Birla that the party posted on X. They have three days to reply.
A 27-year-old engineer received a five-month suspended sentence from the Linz regional court for using ChatGPT to forge a Medical University of Vienna document and submitting it to Upper Austria's medical chamber in a bid to join the register of doctors. He pleaded guilty, said he never wanted to practise and had apparently wanted to impress his (ex-)girlfriend; the verdict is not yet final.
Police in Jersey are investigating a TikTok account that used Grainville School's badge and branding to post five videos, some including staff members, described as "deeply inappropriate deepfake content". The account has been removed; Deputy Rob Ward urged people not to watch or share the material, saying it appears at this stage to be an isolated incident.
Da Nang police fined a 64-year-old man VND7.5 million (US$288) for posting on Facebook an AI-edited image of the entrance gate at Ho Chi Minh City's Youth Culture House Tet festival, showing a horse in a skirt and women's shoes, which authorities called misleading and inappropriate. He admitted all violations, police said.
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Hong Kong's District Court rejected a self-represented claimant's bid to have the judge step aside, which leaned on AI "analysis", including from GPT-4o, that the judge found had hallucinated, crediting the court with a finding it never made. The court also struck out the claim against website on.cc's owner and a related company as time-barred and an abuse of process, and ordered costs.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
Queensland's Civil and Administrative Tribunal dismissed an appeal over refused access to government documents, finding no error of law, and noted that two cases in the appellant's submissions "do not appear to exist". It said the appellant appeared to have used AI, and warned that misleading the tribunal could give rise to a possible charge of contempt.
