The daily rap sheet of the machine age.
12 items
Xi'an police say a false post about Xiaomi's operating data led them to three MCN agencies running 1,357 accounts, allegedly bought illegally, that bulk-posted AI-generated fake video posts to earn platform traffic fees. Fourteen people were caught and four criminally detained on suspicion of infringing citizens' information; police cite over 340,000 yuan in case funds.
Original report: Xiaomi rumour case nets AI fake-video mill in Xi'an
The Michigan Court of Appeals says a plaintiff's counsel in a malpractice appeal relied on AI without adequate verification, citing nonexistent cases and misusing real ones; his 'Notice of Correction', also AI-assisted, attributed quotations to cases that did not contain them. Affirming on the merits, it remanded to determine the defendant's appeal damages and expenses, payable by counsel personally.
Original report: Lawyer's AI-assisted correction of fake citations misquotes cases too
Parents of 13 girls are suing Lancaster Country Day School, unnamed AI companies, and two former students, already sentenced in juvenile court, and their parents in federal court over hundreds of AI deepfake nudes of at least 50 female classmates. The complaint alleges the school knew and covered it up, and the AI firms failed to block or report child sexual abuse material.
Original report: Parents sue Lancaster school, AI firms over student deepfake nudes
Alberta's ALERT child exploitation unit charged two 14-year-old Edmonton boys on June 1 with making and possessing child sexual exploitation material and voyeurism. Police allege they photographed female classmates without consent, pulled other photos from social media, sexualised them with AI software and shared the results between their phones; investigators are still determining which software was used.
Original report: Two Edmonton 14-year-olds charged over AI sexual images of classmates
The Bombay High Court on June 16 granted actor Preity Zinta leave to sue Google LLC, Meta Platforms and other platforms and websites, which she alleges created or spread deepfake videos, manipulated images and AI-generated chatbot personas, infringing her personality rights and moral rights under the Copyright Act. She follows Akshay Kumar, Shilpa Shetty and others in seeking such relief.
Original report: Bombay HC lets Preity Zinta sue Google, Meta over deepfakes
Mindgard researchers told the BBC that a slightly altered, widely shared prompt led ChatGPT (GPT-5.4) to generate gory and sexualised images, including a bloodied dead woman it titled 'Grim crime scene aftermath', without the prompt specifying such subjects. OpenAI says it added safeguards after the BBC got in touch; researchers say small tweaks still worked, and their May report got an automated reply.
Original report: ChatGPT produced gory 'crime scene' images from innocent-looking prompt
A Founder Securities property weekly dated June 9, 2026 presented State Council executive meeting wording on real estate as a 'June 7, 2026' deployment; 21st Century Business Herald found it matched the June 7, 2024 meeting verbatim. Industry sources say the error bears hallmarks of AI hallucination; the report can no longer be found on Wind or iFinD, and Founder had not responded.
Original report: Founder Securities report dates 2024 State Council policy to 2026
Taoiseach Micheál Martin dismissed as 'clearly very false material' a video in which what appears to be an AI-generated version of him, with an English accent, claims investors of any age can earn €40,000 'with just a phone and €250'. He urged social media platforms to stop such material going online and remove it as soon as it is identified.
Original report: Taoiseach warns of deepfake video touting €40,000 investment scam
A proposed class action filed June 16 in New York federal court alleges Madison Square Garden Entertainment failed to protect data on up to 26 million visitors, including facial recognition data, which ShinyHunters claims to have stolen; over 42 gigabytes are now online. The complaint, one of five so far, seeks at least $5 million and calls MSG's response 'woefully insufficient'.
Original report: MSG sued after hackers claim facial recognition data haul
In Italy's first collective action directly challenging social media companies and their algorithms, brought with parents' association MOIGE, families including the parents of a 12-year-old girl who died by suicide are suing Meta and TikTok; the parents say social media kept pushing self-harm content to her over five months. Both companies deny the allegations and cite their teen safeguards.
Original report: Italian families sue Meta, TikTok over algorithms' alleged harm to minors
Kanpur Commissionerate police say they busted a cyber gang that, posing as matrimonial services such as 'Shaadi Match India', used AI and edited photos to build attractive bride profiles, had call-centre women pose as the brides, then extracted lakhs of rupees in registration, activation and 'family consent' fees. Police are still tallying victims and losses.
Original report: Kanpur police bust matrimonial scam using AI-made bride profiles
Univision presenter Clarissa Molina told 'El Gordo y La Flaca' she is the target of a smear campaign of AI-made videos in which an imitation of her voice speaks against Mexicans, which some commenters believe, alongside false claims of a romance. She asked viewers to treat any video of her discussing sensitive politics as fake and says she is seeking a remedy.
Original report: Univision host says AI fakes have her disparaging Mexicans
