A scammer claiming to be an FBI agent sent an Erie County victim a photo of himself in an FBI office that Pennsylvania State Police say is clearly AI-generated, then cited suspicious credit card activity to obtain $4,000 in Apple gift cards. Police say he also tried to persuade the victim to make a down payment on iPads and iPhones at a local T-Mobile store.
BMG Rights Management sued Anthropic in California federal court, alleging it used BMG's copyrighted lyrics, including songs by the Rolling Stones, Bruno Mars and Ariana Grande, to train the models behind Claude, citing 493 allegedly infringed copyrights. BMG also said Anthropic trained on works "sourced from unauthorized torrent sites"; Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Book publisher Chicken Soup for the Soul sued Apple, Google, Nvidia, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity and xAI in California federal court, alleging they trained their chatbots on pirated copies of its books from shadow libraries. The complaint says Apple Foundation Models relied on The Pile and Books 3; Apple said in 2024 that The Pile was used only for research, not for Apple Intelligence.
The California State Bar filed new disciplinary charges against Los Angeles eviction lawyer Dennis Block, including two counts over a 2023 filing that cited non-existent case law and drew $999 in sanctions against his firm. Legal experts said at the time the brief appeared AI-generated; the charges allege "moral turpitude, dishonesty, and corruption," and Block's attorney did not respond.
A young man in Córdoba province, now over 20, will stand trial accused of using AI to put female classmates' faces on nude bodies and spreading the images, with their full names and Instagram links, on social media and messaging groups. Judges classed the minor victims' psychological harm as serious injury aggravated by gender violence, punishable by three to nearly 20 years.
The UK's Advertising Standards Authority banned a YouTube ad for PixVideo - AI Video Maker whose "before" and "after" images showed red scribble on a young woman's midriff, then bare skin, captioned "Erase anything." The ASA said it condoned exposing women's bodies without consent; owner Saeta Tech agreed not to rerun it and paused all advertising.
