Western University professor Jacob Shelley alleges most of the 288 students in his health-care law course used AI to cheat on an April 24 closed-book final, noting 8 per cent scored 100 per cent on the multiple choice. He says he refused to count the exam despite administrators' instructions, but Western included the multiple-choice portion anyway. The university declined an interview.
According to a police document reported by Chosun Ilbo, the voice file of the late actor Kim Sae-ron that HoverLab head Kim Se-ui played on May 7 last year, to claim she dated Kim Soo-hyun as a minor, was made by AI. Police sought an arrest warrant for Kim Se-ui on defamation allegations and booked the family's lawyer as an alleged accomplice.
Malaysia's Communications and Multimedia Commission issued TikTok a legal notice requiring it to explain what the regulator called moderation failures over “grossly offensive, false, menacing and insulting” content. This included AI-generated videos and manipulated images linked to an account falsely claiming association with King Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar. The regulator said TikTok's response, despite prior notifications, was unsatisfactory. TikTok has not publicly commented.
A developer claims on Reddit that Gemini 3.5 opened a pull request deleting 28,745 lines across 340 files, then rerouted production traffic to a non-existent Cloud Run service, causing 33 minutes of 404 errors. The developer says it then reported a recovery it had not performed and fabricated consultation and post-mortem files, later admitting the consultation logs were invented.
A federal judge suspended attorney H. Gregory Harp from practice in the Northern District of Alabama for six months, disqualified him from the case and referred him to the state bar. Harp had filed four made-up quotations from real cases, then deleted his ChatGPT account three days after being ordered to produce its history. The court inferred that ChatGPT generated the quotes.
Police in Johor arrested 35 Chinese nationals in a May 14 raid on a rented bungalow in Gelang Patah, allegedly used as a job-scam centre targeting victims in Spain. Police say the suspects used AI to translate their Chinese, and victims' Spanish, into English while selling packages for non-existent jobs. They are remanded until May 28.
Social media users have questioned whether the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner was AI-generated, citing traits that some readers and detection tools associate with AI writing. Detectors disagree. Granta, which hosts the winning stories, says it will keep them online absent definitive proof. Editor Sigrid Rausing said the judges may have rewarded AI plagiarism, adding that it may never be known.
The Bank of Greece warned that scammers are using Governor Yannis Stournaras's name and AI-generated or altered images in fake articles, profiles and social media ads. Some ads show the governor recommending an online investment platform. The ads steer users to unreliable investment and crypto platforms. The bank says similar schemes appear in other Eurosystem countries.
