The Court of Appeal dismissed self-represented journalist Gemma O'Doherty's appeal in a defamation case brought by councillor Jimmy Guerin, noting her AI-prepared submissions cited authorities that "simply did not exist". Judge Caroline Costello said she did not believe O'Doherty intended to mislead, and set out principles urging litigants to disclose AI use and verify their submissions.
Poland's data protection authority UODO notified the Warsaw-Śródmieście district prosecutor after a teacher's photo was "undressed" with AI and posted online. UODO president Mirosław Wróblewski argued this was unlawful processing of personal data under article 107 of the data protection act, punishable by a fine, restriction of liberty or up to two years' imprisonment.
Nippon Life Insurance Company of America has sued OpenAI in federal court in Illinois, alleging ChatGPT practiced law without a license by helping a policyholder who had settled with the insurer try to reopen the case; the suit says she filed nearly 50 motions created with ChatGPT. It also claims tortious interference and abuse of process.
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The Third Circuit reprimanded attorney Daniel A. Pallen, whose brief in McCarthy v. DEA relied on AI-generated summaries from a non-attorney: seven were inaccurate and one cited adjudication did not exist. He called the errors "immaterial" without checking them. The court said monetary sanctions would likely have followed but for mitigating factors, including this being its first opportunity to address AI.
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The New Jersey Appellate Division sanctioned plaintiff's counsel in Amtrust v. Liberty Mutual $1000 for citing four non-existent cases, which it called "hallmarks of . . . generative artificial intelligence." Told one case could not be found, counsel replied that legal databases confirmed "a case . . . with a similar citation"; the court said it was "stunned by the carelessness."
British charities condemned a trend of sexualized AI images depicting women with Down syndrome, vitiligo and albinism, often unlabeled and drawing millions of views; some accounts alter real images of non-disabled women. The Down's Syndrome Association called it "a scam", and Higgsfield, a virtual-model platform, offers options to add vitiligo and albinism.
In an amended complaint filed March 13, hearing device startup iyO alleges a former iyO engineer downloaded confidential CAD files for io co-founder Tang Tan, now a defendant, who allegedly reviewed internal materials and prototypes at a June 2024 dinner. iyO claims the misappropriation by Tan and OpenAI accelerated io Products' development 'by nearly a decade'.
