A labour judge in Parauapebas, Pará, fined lawyers Alcina Cristina Medeiros Castro and Luanna de Sousa Alves R$84,200 for hiding white-on-white text in a petition telling any AI to contest it superficially and not challenge the documents. The court's own AI tool, Galileu, flagged the command and blocked its processing. The ruling can still be appealed.
Angela Lipps, a 50-year-old Tennessee grandmother, was arrested on July 14, 2025, over a Fargo, North Dakota, bank fraud case after investigators ran poor surveillance stills through facial recognition, her attorney says. Bank records placed her in Tennessee; charges were dismissed without prejudice on December 23, and she was released December 24. Fargo police say the investigation remains open.
Turkish showman Mehmet Ali Erbil said on social media that unidentified people demanded money using fabricated content believed to be made with AI and digital manipulation, then began trying to discredit the entertainer publicly once the demands were ignored. Erbil said the matter had been taken to judicial authorities with all evidence and that anyone spreading the content would also face legal action.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
A federal judge in the Western District of Oklahoma publicly reprimanded attorney Rachel Bussett, finding that a brief she filed cited nonexistent cases and inaccurate quotations and that a later motion falsely described the errors. Bussett acknowledged using AI tools without checking the authorities. She must give the order to her clients and self-report to the state bar.
