Sichuan police said on June 5 that their "Zhiwang 2026" campaign has handled 141 rumour cases and dealt with 165 people, including eight cases of AI-generated fakes, among them videos of a building collapsing with people falling, a "major criminal case" in Xichang and a Palestinian J-10 pilot supposedly from Wusheng.
A V-BAT drone propeller severed two fingers of a Romanian Naval Forces representative during a Shield AI training exercise off Texas on 12 May, Romania's defence ministry told Reuters. Reuters also reports more than 50 V-BAT crashes in 18 months and a whistleblower complaint alleging hidden defects; Shield AI blames a breach of safety procedures, not a product defect.
Turkey's Competition Board has opened an investigation into whether Meta used WhatsApp to give its own AI service an unfair advantage over rival chatbots, and has ordered it to keep WhatsApp open to competing AI services in the meantime. The board, which voted on May 14 and announced the decision Friday, cited serious signs of harm to competition.
Doctors and health funds are filing a complaint with the Dutch advertising code committee over a Philip Morris International poster campaign whose QR code leads to a site that turns clicked objections into an AI-written submission to the European Commission against stricter tobacco rules. A pulmonary pathologist counted dozens of buttons against tighter rules and one in favour.
Seoul Gangnam police referred YouTuber Kim Se-ui, operator of the HoverLab channel, to prosecutors while in custody, recommending charges including defamation, attempted coercion and anti-stalking violations. Police say his claims that actor Kim Soo-hyun dated a late actress when she was a minor relied on fabricated evidence, including doctored chat logs and an AI-generated voice recording.
Colombian presidential candidate Iván Cepeda posted an AI-generated image of Shakira apparently posing with him and running mate Aída Quilcué, crediting her views on education. After an outcry he deleted the post; Shakira said the images were false, that she backs no candidate and has not authorised use of her image in any campaign.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
On 5 June 2026 the NSW Supreme Court found largely for investors over more than $10 million in unredeemed units in a fund recommended by accountant Phillip Hunt. Justice Peden noted Hunt, representing himself, used AI for submissions that included hallucinated authorities, and that the only evidence of the fund's lending policies was created after litigation began, ostensibly by AI.
