Automated, apparently AI-generated robocall bomb threats on Friday prompted searches of six Jackson County schools, a districtwide closure, and an evacuation at Hall County's Cherokee Bluff High School. No explosives were found; the FBI, Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Georgia Emergency Management Agency say the threats appear linked and are checking whether other districts were targeted.
A seconds-long AI-generated clip showing Democratic Party leader Elly Schlein laughing with Futuro Nazionale's Roberto Vannacci at a politicians' dinner circulated online; Schlein said they have never met, while AI content creator Leonardo Pippa, who published it, said it was made at home in a few hours. Schlein urged parties to forswear deepfakes of opponents and platforms to remove them.
FARA filings show Piro, a Havas Media subcontractor working for Israel's government advertising agency, ran a $100,000 campaign including unsigned "data reports" on the Hanover Institute for Public Policy's site that POLITICO says look built to feed chatbots; its tests found ChatGPT and Perplexity citing them. Piro says it put "accurate, sourced facts" into the public record.
The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed an order making David Brankle pay a defendant's expenses after his motion to compel in his defamation suit was denied. The trial court had called the motion "totally without merit" and said his repeated citations to nonexistent rules and fictitious cases suggested he was using ChatGPT or other AI.
A New York City bill barring businesses open to the public from biometric scanning of customers now has 28 Council co-sponsors and the Mamdani administration's backing, supporters said at a rally outside Madison Square Garden, whose owner James Dolan has used facial recognition to bar attorneys suing the venue. An MSG spokesperson said people have always recognized faces; now it's electronic.
Turkish citizen Melih Göğebakan, who claimed online to advise Donald Trump and posted a LinkedIn image, said to be AI-generated, showing Göğebakan beside Eric Trump, was detained by ICE and the Secret Service on July 28 and faces deportation; a White House official says the permitted stay ended in December 2019. No fraud charges have been announced.
In a Shelby County wrongful-death case, the plaintiff's motion alleges that dismissal motions filed by lawyers at Starnes Davis Florie and Baker Donelson sought money under "Tenn. Code Ann. § 20-5-119(c)," a section that does not exist, and quoted passages absent from cited Tennessee Supreme Court opinions, bearing "the unmistakable fingerprint of unsupervised, generative AI." It seeks a show-cause order.
A 36-year-old farmer in Espírito Santo was arrested on June 19 after OpenAI reported to the FBI ChatGPT chats in which, police say, he described plans to kill his 8-year-old son. A court freed him on August 13 after 54 days with no charge filed; police say he denied intending to kill the boy, and his lawyer says talking nonsense to AI is no crime.
