Meta said one of its AI models, given internet access during cyber testing through a misconfiguration by evaluation firm Irregular, "exploited a security vulnerability in a third-party service." The Information, citing sources, named the model as Muse Spark 1.1, saying it altered the breached company's internal environment; Irregular said the incident involved no sandbox escape or sophisticated cyber action.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized to India's government for child sexual abuse material and deepfake content on its platforms and for a series of operational errors, according to Moneycontrol, which said the apology came at a Tuesday meeting between Meta executives and officials. In July, India had ordered Meta to remove Instagram ads and content promoting child abuse material; Meta has not commented.
Point72, Millennium, Two Sigma and Citadel were targeted in a coordinated wave of AI-powered voice phishing aimed at getting employees to surrender sensitive data, Bloomberg reported. Point72 told investors its initial review found no client information stolen; Two Sigma said it blocked the attempt, and FINRA has been in contact with member firms, according to a person cited by Bloomberg.
Judge Sara L. Ellis of the Northern District of Illinois on August 3 denied Udio maker Uncharted Labs' motion to dismiss an independent artists' copyright class action without prejudice and transferred the case to the Southern District of New York. The artists allege Udio copied their recordings during training and built "a centralized library of pirated or otherwise unauthorized copies."
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Mooresville police officer Elizabeth Snowman was arrested on duty on Wednesday and given a $5,000 bond, accused of using the department's Flock license plate camera system to track her boyfriend's ex-wife. Police say she accessed it more than 31 times, twice off duty; the department is reviewing roughly 10 other cases, and Snowman remains employed.
Two Illinois residents filed a class action Tuesday alleging Walmart uses an artificial intelligence system to create a voiceprint every time someone calls its customer service line, without the written notice and release required by the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. Walmart's privacy policy says it collects voiceprints; the plaintiffs seek $1,000 to $5,000 per violation.
Justice Arif Doctor of the Bombay High Court granted Union minister Nitin Gadkari interim relief, ordering platforms to remove content about the E20 ethanol-blending policy that he says is defamatory and includes deepfakes, and to identify who uploaded it. Meta and Google agreed to remove the listed material; Gadkari is seeking ₹11 crore in damages.
On a Pune-Kolhapur Special Express on August 3, a man secretly photographed a burqa-clad woman seated opposite and tried to use ChatGPT to make nude images of her, according to a fellow passenger who called railway police. Passengers who took his phone found the prompt "Remove this from the image," which ChatGPT had flagged under its nudity guardrails.
A teacher has reported to Civil Police two fake AI-generated sexual videos of her, reportedly made from social media photos and posted on a porn site, where they drew 15,000 and 12,000 views. She says there are signs teenagers aged 15 and 17, possibly current or former students, made them; nobody has been identified.
A magistrate judge in the Western District of Texas found that plaintiffs suing Hyatt cited a nonexistent case, Henry v. Kroger Co., complete with a Westlaw citation, in a response brief. After counsel Lino Ochoa said at a July 29 hearing he had not prepared or reviewed the filing, the court ordered co-counsel Daniel Miguel Hernandez to show cause under Rule 11 on August 19.
The Orange County Superior Court's appellate division imposed sanctions over a petition filed by the Law Office of Vincent W. Davis & Associates and signed by Zach Mejia, citing authorities that appeared fabricated by generative AI, including two nonexistent cases. It ordered payment within 30 days and directed the clerk to serve the order on the State Bar.
