Ghanaian influencer Frederick Kumi, known as Abu Trica, was extradited to the US to face wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering charges. Prosecutors say he used AI tools to create fake online identities in a romance scam that took over $8m from elderly Americans; he denies the charges, and his lawyer says Ghana sidestepped judicial oversight, which the government disputes.
According to Wired, Madison Square Garden kept a 'talent' database of nearly 40,000 entries assigning celebrities risk scores and recording race, gender identity and sexual orientation, labelling nearly 100 people 'LGBTQIA'. The data surfaced in records leaked by hacking group ShinyHunters; MSG, long reported to use facial recognition on visitors, calls the reporting "inaccurate and false".
A 13-year-old Maryborough boy charged with two extremism offences allegedly asked an AI to write a first-person 'mass shooting story' modelled on the Bondi beach shooting and set at a 'Jewish and black festival', according to a police prosecutor's affidavit. Justice Peter Davis upheld the refusal of bail, citing risk to the public; the case returns to court in September.
Alethea says Russian, Chinese and Iranian state actors are amplifying local US opposition to data centers through state media, inauthentic accounts and AI-generated content. It cites an RT segment, fake TechCrunch- and Gizmodo-style articles from Russia's Storm-1516 about an Armenian data center, and a June 11 OpenAI report on China-linked accounts stoking opposition.
A York County man has sued the sheriff's office, alleging a deputy held him at gunpoint on Feb. 14, 2024, after a Flock camera falsely flagged his BMW as stolen by misreading one letter of his plate. The sheriff's office blamed an illegal tinted tag cover, though a captain noted the cameras had read the plate correctly 13 times that month.
Shakira said in a statement that AI-generated images in recent weeks have placed her in situations that never happened and with people she has not been with, many used to advertise brands she has no contracts with or to fuel false rumours. A month earlier she disowned a photo montage on a Pacto Histórico poster showing her backing Colombian presidential candidates.
A lawyer's filings in Michigan MM, Inc. v. Alea Properties attributed a quoted phrase to Travis v Preston that the opinion does not contain and cited cases for points they do not address, according to the AI Hallucination Cases Database, which lists AI use as implied. Both parties filed notices of errata; no sanction is recorded.
Milwaukee Police Detective Tehrangi Chapman, of the internal affairs division, was charged with felony misconduct in public office and misuse of a GPS device; the complaint says he admitted using the Flock camera system 20 times to track two people. He had also investigated a fellow officer's Flock misuse, according to the complaint.
A viral photo appearing to show Meagan Good with a baby bump is an AI-altered version of a 2015 paparazzi agency image, TMZ reports; she is not pregnant. Telltale signs include what appear to be extra fingers, and the vape she holds was in the original shot, though TMZ is told she no longer vapes.
