A class action filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of California claims ChatGPT illegally shares users' chatbot queries, user IDs and email addresses with Google and Meta in real time. A Cybernews security researcher expects the allegations not to hold up, calling such tracking tools industry standard, though 'definitely not very privacy-friendly'.
A victim lost at least $4.9 million after a Zoom call that appeared to feature Prime Minister Lawrence Wong and other officials, created with deepfake AI, police said on May 14. An e-mail purportedly from Secretary to the Cabinet Wong Hong Kuan had sought urgent funding over the Strait of Hormuz, promising reimbursement within 15 business days.
HHJ Grimshaw in Dudley referred AML Legal director Kossar Qureshi and consultant solicitor Mahmood Hussain to the Solicitors Regulation Authority after appeal documents cited genuine cases with wrong citations or for points they did not establish, which the judge said appeared 'churned out by a system utilising artificial intelligence'. Hussain accepted he should have checked a paralegal's research.
At a May 14 hearing in San Francisco, U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin did not grant final approval of Anthropic's proposed $1.5 billion settlement with authors who accused it of misusing their books to train Claude, asking for more detail on lawyers' fees and payments to lead plaintiffs. Claims cover over 92% of the more than 480,000 works, the authors' attorney said.
At the first hearing in Tokyo District Court, Perplexity asked that the Asahi Shimbun and Nikkei suit be dismissed as improper, saying there was no proof Japanese courts have jurisdiction. The papers allege its AI search has copied their articles without permission since around June 2024, and seek ¥2.2 billion each in damages.
A Utah man has sued Alphabet, alleging Google's AI Overview itself composed false sex crime allegations about him rather than repeating claims found online, which the complaint says brought hostile messages, confrontations with strangers, lost clients and canceled contracts. The case has just been removed to federal court.
Google Threat Intelligence Group says it has, for the first time, identified a criminal threat actor using a zero-day exploit it believes was developed with AI: a two-factor authentication bypass for a popular open-source system administration tool, planned for mass exploitation. A hallucinated CVSS score in the script was among the tells; Google says its discovery may have prevented its use.
The South Florida Standard, whose "local journalists" were AI creations with fake headshots and bios, went offline after The Florida Trib began investigating; much of its content appears lifted from Florida Politics. The Trib linked it to a reputation management firm founded by Drew Chapin, who said he stood up 17 similar AI-driven news sites.
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New York's Appellate Division, First Department, suspended Janelle Melissa Lewis on May 14 for refusing to appear and produce documents in a grievance inquiry. A Texas immigration attorney who hired her as a freelancer was fined $1,500 after her draft, filed in New Mexico federal court, cited non-existent cases the court attributed to ChatGPT or similar AI.
Chaac Pizza Northeast, which runs about 111 Pizza Huts, has sued the franchisor in the Business Court of Texas, alleging the chain's Dragontail Artificial Intelligence system caused "cascading operational breakdowns," slowed orders and cost it around $100 million in business and enterprise value. Pizza Hut said it is reviewing the claim.
A woman in northern Italy allegedly invented the illness and death of her pregnant daughter to get about €1,550 from a former colleague for supposed hospital costs, Italian media reported, citing the Carabinieri. She allegedly sent newborn photos found online as her "grandchild", then apparently AI-generated pictures of the funeral.
Police in Assam's Cachar district arrested two Mizoram men who allegedly ran facial recognition and biometric registration camps at a Silchar marriage hall without authorisation, collecting data from more than 200 residents, mostly youths. Participants said they were offered around ₹200 under a scheme supposedly linked to an American multinational; police have registered a cheating case.
The Arbitration Court of the West Siberian District on May 5 fined OOO TsSS 50,000 roubles for contempt after its cassation complaint quoted rulings that either do not exist or contain none of the quoted passages; its representative confirmed in court the cited practice did not exist. The court said preparing a complaint with AI would be no excuse.
