Futurism has confirmed that Ars Technica fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards. The site had retracted a February 13 article containing quotes "generated by an AI tool" and attributed to an engineer who never said them. Edwards took "full responsibility", saying that while feverish he used a Claude Code-based tool and ChatGPT and ended up with a paraphrase instead of the actual words.
Parents sent Rs 1,02,000 after a video call from an unknown number appeared to show their son being stabbed, with the caller threatening to kill him unless they paid. The son returned home safe the next day. Police say the scammers likely used deepfake technology. The call came from a Haryana SIM and the money was withdrawn from an ATM in Bihar.
Nepal Police have arrested 35 people from various districts ahead of the House of Representatives elections. The charges include using AI tools to spread misinformation and false propaganda on social media. Spokesperson DIG Abhi Narayan Kafle said investigations are underway, and that an AI unit set up at police headquarters last week is now in operation.
A brief to the Connecticut Supreme Court, including work by Yale law students, says GLG Law filed a lower-court brief with "hallucinatory" AI-generated citations for a landlord seeking to evict a Middletown tenant. The brief urges dismissal of the appeal plus sanctions. GLG acknowledged the errors, writing that counsel "did not notice that AI had intuitively made changes to the brief prior to filing".
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
The Court of Québec rejected two self-represented tenants' bid to annul a seizure. It ordered them to pay $800 to the bailiff's firm because their brief cited judgments that could not be found or did not say what was claimed. The judge found they knowingly misled the court. One tenant admitted using AI, then retracted.
