TikTok banned 20 accounts after the BBC and researchers from Riddance found dozens of unlabelled, AI-generated, highly sexualised black female avatars on Instagram and TikTok, 60 of them linking to paid explicit content. One account overlaid its avatar on a real creator's videos. Meta said it was investigating; the researchers called the trend racist and exploitative.
Chinese voice actor Ji Guanlin, who voiced the heroine Zhen Huan, says people used her past dubbing recordings to generate AI voices for derivative and even commercial content without authorisation. In a three-point statement she said she never licensed her voice for AI synthesis, demanded infringers take down all such works and audio, and warned she would pursue liability under the law.
In a ruling announced on March 20, 2026, the Beijing Internet Court found that a production company infringed actress Dilraba Dilmurat's image rights by using deepfake technology to graft her face onto a character in two segments of a 44-episode short film. The broadcasting platform was held jointly liable; both must publicly apologise and pay economic damages, and neither appealed.
Patanjali Ayurved co-founder and managing director Acharya Balkrishna has filed a commercial suit in the Delhi High Court seeking protection of his personality rights and action against alleged misuse of his identity through deepfake technology. The suit targets "Ashok Kumar", a fictitious name, and other unknown parties; Justice Tushar Rao Gedela is listed to hear it on Monday.
Israel's Supreme Court ordered Ramat Gan municipality to pay NIS 30,000 in costs after finding it relied on uncontrolled AI: it rejected a student's school-transport request citing a nonexistent Education Ministry circular and invented quotations and case holdings, then kept citing nonexistent case law in court filings. The court refrained, this time, from imposing personal costs on the municipality's lawyer.
Israel's National Labor Court ordered a lawyer to personally pay NIS 2,500 to the state treasury after her response in a leave-to-appeal case brought by Kibbutz Beit Nir cited rulings the court said were invented by AI, wrongly named cases and nonexistent quotations. She said a draft was filed by mistake; the court called it its first such personal-costs order.
