According to InPost founder Rafał Brzoska, Poland's data protection authority UODO responded to his complaint about scam ads using his likeness by opening administrative proceedings against Facebook Poland, asking Ireland's Data Protection Commission for a draft decision in a case open since July 2024, and urging the European Commission to act against deepfake fraud.
Donald Trump announced on Truth Social on 31 August that Iran's Kharg Island had been "smashed to pieces", attaching a short AI-generated aerial video of US strikes destroying its energy installations. The post came after US forces hit two rocket launchers on another island, the first known US strikes on Iran since late July.
Ronald Richardson, 49, a former vendor who refilled drink machines at Gilmer High School, was found guilty on 13 August of 118 counts of sexual exploitation of children. Authorities say he used online apps and bots to make social-media photos of minors appear nude or sexual; prosecutors say more than 150 victims were identified. Sentencing was set for Wednesday.
San Antonio police arrested Nathaniel Michael Carrasco, 22, on a terroristic-threat charge after, according to an arrest affidavit, he told an Anthropic chatbot on 11 August he planned to shoot children at Serna Elementary, next door to his home, and asked it to search "dead school kids bleeding". The affidavit does not say how the chatbot responded.
Former Jackson County sheriff's deputy Skylar Thompson has been charged with official misconduct and fraud after a routine audit; the affidavit alleges he searched the same license plate 2,055 times in Flock camera data between 31 December 2025 and 2 August 2026, citing "city planning/traffic analysis", duties he was never assigned.
Actor Shalini Pandey, who debuted in the 2017 Telugu film Arjun Reddy, said on Instagram that a video circulating online which appears to show her topless is "completely fabricated" and AI-generated. She condemned the misuse of technology to target women and asked people not to share, download or engage with it, but to report it.
'A Sina de Ofélia', an anonymous Portuguese version of Taylor Swift's 'The Fate of Ophelia' with AI-cloned voices of Luísa Sonza and Dilsinho, was played 3,064 times on 47 Brazilian radio stations, according to Crowley data for BBC News Brasil, earning at least R$50,000 in royalties that Ecad is withholding for lack of an author.
British Columbia's Civil Resolution Tribunal found that two former tenants disputing $1,800 in strata bylaw fines cited several cases that do not exist, likely AI "hallucinations", and said it had no obligation to address arguments with no basis in law. The tribunal still partly allowed their claim in its 31 August decision.
A claimant contesting CPAM Moselle's refusal to pay sickness benefits beyond 23 December 2022 acknowledged in post-hearing notes that the case-law references he had submitted were inaccurate, produced in error while using an artificial intelligence tool. The social division of the Metz judicial tribunal dismissed all his claims on 31 August 2026.
