A truck driver wrongly arrested at Reno's Peppermill Casino in September 2023 after a facial recognition "100% match" alleges in a new filing that Reno police made thousands of similar arrests over years. Federal Judge Miranda Du last week let him add the City of Reno to his suit against the arresting officer; his Peppermill suit settled pre-trial.
Stephen Kamnik, 39, a suspended Pennsylvania State Police corporal, pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of children, unlawful use of a computer, wiretapping, official oppression and related crimes. Court filings say he used AI tools to make 3,000 deepfakes from women's photos, including from the state driver's license database and law enforcement mug shots, and secretly filmed female coworkers.
Alexis Martínez-Arizala, 25, showed a Seminole County deputy an AI-generated, roughly three-second phone video appearing to show two people entering the deputy's patrol car, the sheriff's office says; store surveillance showed nobody approached it. Arrested in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he faces charges including fabricating physical evidence and making a false report to law enforcement.
Shanghai police say two suspects, now arrested, bought more than 4,000 self-media accounts and had AI turn trending topics into unchecked posts, including rumours about carmakers such as Xiaomi, NIO and Volvo. Accounts tied to four MCN agencies published 700,000 articles and drew 80 million reads; the scheme earned more than 80,000 yuan, police say.
A video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, which a probe suggested was a deepfake, promised Rs 1 lakh monthly for a Rs 22,000 monthly investment and led a retired man in Pune to a fake forex app. Within a month he sent Rs 1.01 crore against displayed "profits" of Rs 4.54 crore, then was asked for more to withdraw.
An Ohio teenager faces more than 50 felony charges, including counts of pandering sexually oriented material involving a minor, over explicit images of other students, records show. A victim's mother says her daughter's face was used in AI-altered images and the school district referenced AI in a letter to families, but the police report and court filings obtained by WLWT do not specifically mention AI.
A Utah man was arrested after his wife told police she found child sexual abuse material on his phone: images of her daughter, his stepdaughter, altered with AI, according to court documents. The documents say he confessed the AI use to his therapist and a church leader, who both reported it to the Utah Division of Child and Family Services.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
Paraná's Court of Justice upheld a bad-faith finding against claimants whose filing, which it attributed to improper AI use, cited a nonexistent Superior Court of Justice ruling and an unrelated 2016 criminal-procedure case; on 8 April 2026 it cut their fine from 2% to 1% of the case's value. The trial court had also notified the Paraná bar; their lawyer called it a research error.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
In a GST dispute decided 8 April 2026, Australia's Administrative Review Tribunal found that a training company's witness statement described a tax ruling, which 'appears to have been generated by artificial intelligence', entirely inaccurately, and that approximately 70 AI-found cases lacked proper citations. After a tribunal order, the company withdrew all but three. Parties were warned that unchecked AI 'wastes time and cost.'
Hanoi police said on April 8 that they had dealt with a 21-year-old man over a Facebook post urging people to fill up as fuel prices turned. The post carried an AI-generated image of a man fainting at a petrol station. Police say he admitted using the false image to farm views and likes, then removed the post.
