The daily rap sheet of the machine age.
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Ahmedabad Crime Branch arrested Himanshu alias Rocky Yogeshbhai Panchal, who police say posed as a police officer on matrimonial sites and used AI to forge cybercrime letters and income tax raid papers, taking Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh each from an estimated 20 to 21 women. His recovered fake ID listed a retirement year of 3026.
Original report: Ahmedabad police arrest alleged fake officer over AI forgeries
The Fort Smith Police Department says a fake AI-generated video posted by the Facebook page Daily Stories shows an officer, who was shot in the neck during a DWI investigation and remains in critical condition, thanking the public for support. Police have reported it to Facebook and asked people not to share it, calling it "particularly harmful" to his family.
Original report: Fort Smith police warn of fake AI video of shot officer archived copy of Fort Smith police warn of fake AI video of shot officer
Voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda filed suit in Tokyo District Court in November seeking removal of at least 188 TikTok videos from an unidentified account whose narration, he alleges, uses generative AI to mimic his voice; TikTok's side counters that it is a 'universal male voice' trained on a friend's. The case is believed to be the first over unauthorised AI voice use.
Original report: Voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda sues TikTok over AI-mimicked voice archived copy of Voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda sues TikTok over AI-mimicked voice
The FTC says Cox Media Group falsely told advertisers in 2023 that it used AI to 'identify buyers based on casual conversations in real time' ('Creepy? Sure. Great for marketing? Definitely'), and that consumers had opted in. Cox, which says it relied on a vendor's marketing materials, agreed to pay $880,000; MindSift and 1010 Digital Works agreed to $25,000 each.
Original report: Cox Media agrees to pay $880,000 over AI listening claims archived copy of Cox Media agrees to pay $880,000 over AI listening claims
The National Investigation Agency's chargesheet over the Delhi Red Fort blast that killed 11 people alleges accused Jasir Bilal Wani, the module's in-house IED engineer, used YouTube and ChatGPT to research explosive designs, rocket construction and chemical proportions, and bought triggering components on Flipkart, according to details reported by CNN-News18.
Original report: NIA chargesheet says Red Fort accused researched IEDs with ChatGPT archived copy of NIA chargesheet says Red Fort accused researched IEDs with ChatGPT
Members of the public used a spectrogram image in the NTSB's UPS Flight 2976 docket to recreate the pilots' voices from the flight's final 30 seconds and posted it online; the board, which said Thursday that 'advances in image recognition and computational methods' made this possible, closed public access to all dockets and urged X and Reddit to remove the audio.
Original report: Internet rebuilds UPS crash cockpit audio from NTSB spectrogram archived copy of Internet rebuilds UPS crash cockpit audio from NTSB spectrogram
South Korea's police said on May 22 they are tracking whoever posted an apparently AI-generated fake newspaper article bearing the Gwangju Ilbo masthead and a May 20, 1980 date, which claimed spies acting on orders from the North seized armouries during the 5·18 Democratization Movement. Police promised a zero-tolerance investigation and takedown requests.
Original report: Korean police hunt author of AI-faked 1980 Gwangju newspaper archived copy of Korean police hunt author of AI-faked 1980 Gwangju newspaper
According to TrendAI researchers, a Russian-speaking actor using the handle bandcampro used a jailbroken Gemini to pose as an American veteran on a Telegram channel of about 17,000 subscribers, push a fake wallet, crack 29 WordPress admin accounts and empty at least one victim's crypto wallets. Asked how crypto call centres scam North Americans, Gemini suggested Medicare fraud targeting the elderly.
Original report: Jailbroken Gemini co-ran MAGA-targeted crypto scam, researchers say archived copy of Jailbroken Gemini co-ran MAGA-targeted crypto scam, researchers say
Devin Rudd, 26, of Clearwater was arrested and charged with two counts of possessing child sexual abuse material and seven counts of generating an altered sexual depiction without consent; a Largo Police Department report alleges he uploaded a woman's social media photos to X's Grok to put her face on a naked body.
Original report: Clearwater man charged over Grok-made nude images of woman
Beau Peterson, 37, of Vernal, Utah, has been charged with aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor and two counts of producing child sex abuse material. According to the probable cause statement, he fed a screenshot of security-camera footage of a real child into an AI application to generate sexual images. He is held without bail. Charges are allegations only.
Original report: Utah man charged over AI abuse images of real child
