Judge David Hamilton, rejecting a man's case against Meta over Are We Dating the Same Guy posts calling the man 'psycho', wrote that attorney Aaron Walner's brief had mistakes and fictitious quotations bearing 'the hallmarks of the misuse of generative artificial intelligence.' The court ordered Walner, Marc Trent, whose firm employs Walner, and the client to answer or face sanctions.
Steven Rosenbaum, author of "The Future of Truth", acknowledged the book contains "a handful of improperly attributed or synthetic quotes" after The New York Times found more than a half-dozen, including lines attributed to Kara Swisher, who said she "never said that". Rosenbaum, who used ChatGPT and Claude, called the errors an accident and said future editions will be corrected.
A Massachusetts judge barred Morgan & Morgan lawyer T. Michael Morgan from appearing in litigation against Harvard Medical School over body parts stolen from donated cadavers, citing a February 2025 Wyoming sanction over motions that cited eight AI-hallucinated cases. Judge Kenneth Salinger said Morgan made no attempt to show changed practices; the firm hopes the judge will reconsider.
A Polícia Civil and OAB-SP task force served 26 warrants and arrested at least ten suspects in a fake-lawyer scam that investigators say moved about R$10 million in six months, using lawyers' names, fake court decisions and, in some cases, AI-cloned voices to get clients to transfer money. Police estimate about 700 victims in total.
Beijing's Haidian District People's Court sentenced a defendant surnamed Chen to one year and six months in prison and a 20,000 yuan fine for illegally using information networks. The court found Chen ran messaging groups from August 2023 to June 2025 selling tutorials and apps for making obscene material with AI, earning more than 100,000 yuan.
The NBI arrested 17 people, 14 Filipinos and three foreign nationals, in a raid on an alleged romance-scam hub in Parañaque City. Investigators say the group used dating apps, scripted chats and a computer with AI face-swapping software to target victims abroad, steering funds to crypto wallets linked to "cexonline.uk".
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In a labor class action against Sushi Katsuei, Judge Katherine Polk Failla ordered defense counsel to pay $1,710 in opposing fees plus a $1,000 penalty after the lawyer admitted using LexisNexis's AI tool and filing unchecked letters with hallucinated and misapplied citations. The defendants were separately ordered to pay $46,980 over discovery misconduct.
Christopher King, 47, received a three-year prison sentence suspended for three years at Swindon Crown Court after pleading guilty to making indecent photographs and AI-made pseudo-photographs of five children, and to sexual communication with a child. King must pay £4,000 compensation to the victims and complete 250 hours of unpaid work.
A Bureau of Investigative Journalism investigation found creators in Pakistan and Sri Lanka profiting from AI-generated Islamophobic and anti-immigrant Facebook content aimed at British audiences. Sri Lankan creator Geeth Sooriyapura claimed $300,000 in Facebook earnings and 2,500 course graduates; Meta removed many pages when contacted, though the Sri Lanka network is back up and running.
