OpenAI banned an account in June over 'furtherance of violent activities' but judged it below its threshold for referral to the RCMP; in a letter posted Friday, Sam Altman apologised for not alerting police before its user, police say, killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, on Feb. 10. Premier David Eby called the apology 'necessary, and yet grossly insufficient'.
Daejeon police have arrested a man in his 40s on suspicion of obstructing official duties, alleging he used AI to fake a photo of escaped O-World wolf Neuggu near the O-World intersection; shared as a 'citizen tip' and in a disaster alert text, it drew 71 riot and special unit officers there. He reportedly said 'I did it for fun.'
A model and influencer says the AI-generated microdrama The Peach Blossom Hairpin, on ByteDance's Hongguo app, used her likeness without consent, showing her slapping women and mistreating animals, and plans to sue the makers and the platform. A man says he was cast as her AI husband, a 'sleazy' antagonist; Hongguo says it took the series down because producers broke platform rules.
Seoul Southern District prosecutors have indicted without detention a Seoul local civil servant accused of making a fake composite photo last November that showed the official and a female subordinate as a couple and setting it as the official's own KakaoTalk profile picture. The charges include defamation and editing false video material under the sexual violence special act.
A high school student has been charged with a Class A misdemeanour of unlawful production/distribution of deep fake sexually explicit media after, the Jasper County sheriff says, he admitted using AI to make an image of a female student appear nude and posting it briefly to a public Snapchat story in November 2025.
AIIMS New Delhi has reportedly cancelled an MBBS mid-semester biochemistry exam and decided on a re-examination after faculty, suspicious of rising restroom requests, found a mobile phone hidden in a washroom that students allegedly used to look up answers with AI tools such as ChatGPT. A News 18 report suggests around 50 to 60 students may have tried to use the method.
A North Carolina high school freshman received a zero on an English assignment after a teacher ran it through three AI detection tools, which gave AI-generation likelihoods of 62, 75 and 87 percent. The student and her mother dispute the accusation, saying detectors are known to wrongly flag work as AI-generated, and the student has started a petition for responsible use of the tools.
