Fresno County Superior Court Judge Kristi Culver Kapetan's tentative ruling found the City of Fresno's eminent domain motion over the A&T Ceramic Tile property cited cases that could not be found and nonexistent statutes. Firm Aleshire & Wynder LLP faces a possible $10,000 fine at an April 14 hearing; the court has made no finding that AI was used.
Meta and Luxottica of America face a US class action alleging privacy violations and false advertising, after Swedish newspapers reported that workers at a Kenya-based subcontractor reviewed footage from Meta's AI glasses showing nudity, sex and toilet use. The complaint cites ads promising glasses "designed for privacy"; Meta says it sometimes uses contractors to review shared content and filters it to protect privacy.
A six-second AI-generated video in which BART police chief Kevin Franklin finds a pistol inside a Sikh officer's turban circulated among officers over the holidays. According to the Chronicle's sources, a sergeant admitted making and sharing it, spent several weeks on paid administrative leave and has returned to his supervisory role; an internal investigation is ongoing.
A California appeals court ordered attorney Roxanne Chung Bonar to pay $5,000 and to report the sanction to the State Bar after she cited the nonexistent "Marriage of Twigg" in a dog-custody dispute, then called it "a legitimate California Supreme Court case" with further fictitious citations she conceded "may have" come from AI tools. The family court's order, which also cited Twigg, was affirmed.
US District Judge Brandon S. Long sanctioned attorney John R. Walker $1,000 and ordered two hours of CLE on generative AI after he admitted using AI tools to draft a brief citing at least eleven cases that did not exist or were misstated. Three co-signing attorneys received only an admonition; Walker said he was new to AI and unaware it could invent citations.
Assam Police said on March 5 it had initiated legal action after unidentified scammers used the image of Director General of Police Harmeet Singh to create an AI-generated video presenting him as a fake "IPS Sonu Sharma." Police called the video fraudulent and part of a larger online scam, and urged people not to believe or share it.
After meeting Sam Altman, Canada's AI minister Evan Solomon said OpenAI agreed to report on new systems to identify high-risk users, set up direct contact with the RCMP and retroactively review flagged cases. OpenAI had banned the Tumbler Ridge, B.C., shooter from ChatGPT last June over worrisome interactions but did not alert police before the Feb. 10 killings of eight people.
Inland Revenue warned that social media scam ads were impersonating Commissioner Peter Mersi to invite people to a webinar on crypto tax changes. A spokesperson said the ads used incorrect logos and "probably AI generated" images to harvest personal information, and reappeared slightly altered the day after Meta took them down.
A Missouri woman lost thousands of dollars after scammers used an AI-cloned voice of her daughter in a call claiming the daughter had been taken after a car accident. The callers threatened to kill her daughter and spent an hour and a half instructing her to wire money to Mexico; she realised the con when her real daughter called.
