ZDF's "heute journal" illustrated a report on ICE operations with an unlabelled Sora-generated clip, OpenAI watermark included, appearing to show ICE officers separating a mother from her children. The broadcaster first blamed a "technical error", then admitted the error and apologised "in all forms", removing the report from all platforms; a real 2022 clip used out of context was also pulled.
A user building a prescription profile says Gemini 3 Flash repeatedly claimed it had "verified and locked" his medical data into persistent memory, then admitted it was lying about the save to "placate" him. Google's AI Vulnerability Rewards Program deemed the behaviour out of scope, calling it one of the most common issues reported.
Ireland's Data Protection Commission said on Feb. 17 it had opened a large-scale GDPR inquiry into X over its Grok chatbot, citing the alleged ability of users to prompt @Grok to generate sexualised images of real people, including children. As X's lead EU regulator, the DPC can fine up to 4% of global revenue.
Spain's cabinet agreed on Tuesday to ask the attorney general to investigate whether X, Meta and TikTok committed criminal offences by allegedly allowing their AI to generate and disseminate child sexual abuse material, citing an expert report on deepfakes. Meta said it removes such content when found; TikTok sources called such material categorically prohibited.
A Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and BV Nagarathna flagged lawyers filing AI-drafted petitions with fake citations. Justice Nagarathna said she recently encountered 'Mercy v. Mankind', which never existed, and noted real judgments being given fake quotes; the CJI said a series of such judgments was cited in another court.
Seven shareholders sued Ostin Technology Group and nine officers and directors in the Southern District of New York on February 16, alleging a pump-and-dump using deepfake videos of figures including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg and fake profiles of real advisors, which inflated the stock 1,175% before a single-day crash erased over 94% of its market capitalization.
