Robert Dillon, a Fort Myers commercial crabber, is suing Jacksonville Beach police and the Jacksonville and Pinellas County sheriff's offices after an AI-assisted facial recognition match got him arrested in August 2024, accused of trying to lure a child at a restaurant more than 300 miles from home. The suit says police concealed evidence clearing him; prosecutors have since dropped the charges.
Devin Kim, a former xAI engineer now president of the Center for AI Safety, sued xAI and parent company SpaceX in California state court, alleging he was fired last September for pushing safety guardrails on Grok. The suit claims co-founder Jimmy Ba rejected his safety mechanisms and fired him just before he was to present on AI safety to leadership.
A German court has issued a preliminary ruling holding Google liable for AI Overviews that falsely linked two publishers to scams and "dubious business practices," ordering a temporary injunction against repeating the claims. The court found the tool made "independent, new, and substantive statements" and that search works fine without it. Google says the decision is not yet final.
OpenAI said in a June 10 report that Chinese-speaking users had ChatGPT draft slogans and cartoons mocking Trump's trade and tech policy, later posted to X, while another group, traced to an unnamed Chinese tech company that did government work, targeted US debates over AI and data centers. It said the efforts had little or no effect; China's embassy rejected "groundless attacks."
Google asked an Illinois federal court on June 8 to dismiss, with prejudice, a proposed class action by independent musicians who allege it trained its Lyria 3 music model on their YouTube recordings without permission or payment. It argues the artists licensed their music to YouTube and its affiliates, Google included, by accepting the platform's terms.
South Korea's Ministry of Food and Drug Safety referred a distributor to prosecutors over ads in which an AI-generated middle-aged "doctor" claimed ordinary vitamin C and yeast foods remove aging cells, promising "reverse aging." The ads were pulled in November 2025, but the firm kept selling; from September 2025 to May 2026 it sold about 650,000 units for 8.1 billion won, the ministry says.
A proposed class action filed May 14 in California federal court alleges X.AI embedded Google, Meta and TikTok tracking code in Grok.com, sharing each conversation's unique URL, page title and identifying metadata, including queries about finances, health and legal issues, without consent. It claims violations of federal and California privacy laws and seeks $5,000 per state-law violation.
Speaking before a Belgrade performance, singer Zorana Mićanović said AI-generated nude images of her had recently appeared; a friend sent her a link to a profile featuring fakes of numerous public figures made from their existing Instagram photos. She said she had nothing to fear from blackmail, since she does not send such photos.
Sand Springs Public Schools in Oklahoma temporarily disabled all student email accounts after AI-generated images depicting school administrators in "inappropriate conduct" were sent to students through the district's email system. The district says it is investigating and that any student found responsible faces discipline; Sand Springs police are also investigating.
An influencer has sued underwear brand Empowered By You in California federal court, alleging it altered a modest promotional video she made under contract into an explicit AI-generated deepfake exposing her breasts and posted it to the brand's Instagram. The complaint claims breach of contract and copyright infringement and seeks the video's removal and damages; EBY didn't respond.
The Georgia Court of Appeals on June 10, 2026 vacated part of a trial court order, drafted by the plaintiffs' attorney in discrimination suits against Henry County Schools, that relied on at least one hallucinated case and misquoted others. It called the submission "troubling", the trial court's failure to notice "regrettable", and reminded counsel and lower courts, "yet again", of their AI obligations.
