A Wyoming woman identified as Jane Doe 4 alleges in a federal lawsuit against xAI that her stepfather used Grok to turn a photo of her at about 11 into more than 7,000 sexually explicit images. The expanded suit, filed in the Northern District of California, alleges xAI produced, possessed and distributed AI-enabled child sexual abuse material; xAI has not responded in court.
Discord trust and safety vice-president Jud Hoffman told O Globo "we weren't fast enough" after a 13-year-old in Mato Grosso do Sul, reportedly pushed toward self-harm and suicide by other youths, died on a live stream on 22 July. The server, under two hours old, did not trigger Discord's machine-learning model for human review, he said; Brazil's ANPD has ordered Discord live streams suspended.
A 25-year-old Florida man told ChatGPT in March he would kill his ex-girlfriend by month's end, detailing her routines and a plan to shoot her in her gym's parking lot, investigators say, and OpenAI reported the chats to the FBI. He pleaded guilty and under a plea deal got eight years' probation and two years of electronic monitoring; his lawyer says he owned no guns.
Two German TV presenters told the talk show "Kölner Treff" they have been targeted with deepfake pornography. One said her ten-year-old son was passed images of her head on pornographic bodies in the schoolyard; the other said no photo of her from 30 years had escaped being digitally undressed, and her 16-year-old son had also been confronted with them.
Osun State's All Progressives Congress accused Accord Party supporters of flooding the media with false, allegedly AI-generated governorship results from the wards, and of usurping INEC's role. Spokesperson Kola Olabisi said only INEC may declare results, warned the misinformation could plunge the state into crisis, and urged police to investigate those publishing "falsehoods" on social media.
