A survivor of the 2025 Florida State University shooting sued OpenAI and Sam Altman on June 25 in Leon Circuit Civil court, alleging ChatGPT spent nearly a year helping accused gunman Phoenix Ikner research school shootings and operate his firearms. The suit follows others, including one by Florida's attorney general; the company has said its chatbot gave factual, publicly available information.
An 86-year-old Ontario woman lost $900,000, including a $300,000 mortgage on her condo, after a Facebook ad featuring a deepfake of Prime Minister Mark Carney pitched a crypto platform supposedly backed by the Bank of Canada. A fake account showed her money nearly doubling; after her final payment, the contact stopped and the money was gone.
In what appears to be Estonia's first known such penalty, Tallinn Administrative Court fined one plaintiff €150 and nine others €50 after their challenge to a logging permit cited nonexistent Estonian scientists and studies that could not be found. The plaintiffs said AI use was not forbidden and they meant no deception; the court said litigants answer for the accuracy of their filings.
Folhapress reporters found dozens of Instagram profiles posting explicit sex videos for at least three months, using black-and-white collages and layered footage to evade Meta's automated detection while Reels recommended them to non-followers, in some cases accessible to minors, alongside links to suspicious sites. Meta removed the flagged posts; Brazil's ANPD said failing to take reasonable measures could be punishable.
Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar party petitioned Central Elections Committee chairman Justice Noam Sohlberg to order removal of a Religious Zionism video whose AI-generated images, the petition says, falsely depict Eisenkot alongside Mansour Abbas and Mahmoud Abbas, with an AI label too inconspicuous to prevent misleading voters. Party leader Bezalel Smotrich called the petition a "ridiculous attempt at silencing."
A federal class action filed June 22 in the Eastern District of California alleges Kalibrate's AI-based pricing software was the "central nervous system" of a conspiracy among 14 gas chains, including ARCO, Safeway, Circle K and Walmart, to extinguish price competition, with a typical overcharge of roughly 6 cents a gallon and up to 30 cents. Defendants have not yet answered.
DuckDuckGo's AI chatbot told users that President Donald Trump had died of rabies from an infection linked to Vice President J.D. Vance, a claim traced to joke posts on r/poisonai, a 45,000-member Reddit community that publishes nonsense to poison AI models. Futurism first reported the error; according to Tom's Guide, the chatbot no longer presents the story as legitimate.
A 20-year-old sitting the AYT exam in Çekmeköy, Istanbul, on June 21 brought in a phone tucked into shorts and photographed two pages of the science booklet to look up answers in an AI app, according to the candidate's police statement. Invigilators stopped the candidate, police found the phone, and a court ordered the candidate held on a charge of violating the law governing ÖSYM.
Núi Cấm commune authorities in An Giang fined a 38-year-old woman 7.5 million dong on June 26 for sharing false information after she reported an 80 kg crocodile in the Vịnh Tre canal, prompting public warnings and a fruitless search. Her 17-year-old daughter later told police the images were AI-generated and had been sent to a family Zalo group.
