Magistrate Judge Robert T. Numbers publicly reprimanded former assistant US attorney Rudy Renfer for knowingly filing an AI-generated brief with false quotes and erroneous citations, then withholding his AI use in sworn testimony at a March 10 hearing. The judge called the conduct "particularly odious" but imposed no further penalties, citing the professional consequences Renfer had already suffered.
Superior Court Judge Martin F. Sheehan on April 22 struck down arbitrator Michel A. Jeanniot's August 2025 decision in a $1.2-million dispute between a medical clinic and a Montreal health authority, finding all its doctrinal and jurisprudential references nonexistent and "hallucinated" and that the arbitrator had delegated part of his decision-making to generative AI.
Ahmedabad's cyber crime police arrested four people accused of using AI-generated deepfake videos made from a businessman's photograph to fool Aadhaar facial authentication, change his linked mobile number via unauthorised update kits, and open bank accounts and apply for loans in his name. Police say three are linked to Common Service Centres; all four are in judicial custody.
Judge Otis D. Wright II sanctioned plaintiff's lawyer Gavril T. Gabriel $2,500 for bad faith after he cited the nonexistent In re Shubert three times in briefs drafted partly with LexisNexis+'s Protégé, first calling it a copy-and-paste error. He must also file a declaration explaining his AI use in every Central District case and email it to other judges there.
AI-generated videos showing Nobel chemistry laureate Aaron Ciechanover appearing to promise a fix for impotence and prostatitis "within one week" have circulated on social media for over two years. Ciechanover told Channel 12 on Monday he has nothing to do with them, calling it a financial and health scam, and accused Facebook of failing to block such videos because it profits.
A NewsGuard audit released on April 28 says Le Chat, the chatbot of French AI company Mistral, keeps relaying false claims from Russian, Iranian and Chinese disinformation campaigns, describing it as a leading spreader of propaganda. France's armed forces ministry uses Mistral, which said last month it had raised $830 million in debt to expand its first data centre.
