Victims of February's school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, in which eight people were killed, filed 30 more lawsuits against OpenAI and Sam Altman, bringing the total to 37. The suits allege ChatGPT induced the attack and that leaders, warned by safety staff eight months earlier, failed to alert police. OpenAI denies that political or PR factors played a part.
SOCAN, Canada's largest member-based music rights organisation, has sued Suno. It alleges the AI music generator trained on 'virtually all music files readily accessible on the Internet' without licences, and has generated and streamed outputs copying members' songs. The suit cites a sample of 150 outputs, including copies of Bobcaygeon and Sk8er Boi. Suno did not respond to requests for comment.
Guy Forsyth, Eduardo Calle and Camper Van Beethoven's David Lowery are among the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Suno. Rather than filing a straightforward copyright case, the plaintiffs claim Suno imitates their voices and styles without permission. The Verge notes that the complaint includes a long introduction that, for some reason, involves the Borg.
Taiwanese prosecutors indicted 57 people in an alleged romance-fraud ring led by a man surnamed Huang and his wife, surnamed Hsu, and sought terms of 25 and 18 years for the couple. Police say members posed as women on dating apps using AI voice-changing software built by in-house engineers, and took over NT$900m from more than 20,000 victims since 2022.
India's Supreme Court set aside a Rs 425,27,99,100 customs penalty, along with the Gujarat High Court ruling upholding it. The court found that the Surat Additional Commissioner of Customs had cited non-existent cases, fake citations, and real cases that do not support the stated ratio, which it said 'appears to be a hallucination of AI'. A different officer will decide the case afresh.
Reporters Without Borders says that in tests in June and August, ChatGPT, Claude and Grok, when asked, reproduced content from RT, Sputnik and other Russian official media under EU sanctions. Mistral's Vibe and Google's Gemini gave in after repeated requests, and only Meta AI refused. RSF wants Brussels to investigate OpenAI, which said it takes the findings seriously.
Israel's national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, posted and then deleted an AI-generated re-election video. In it, he presses a button to strip prisoners depicted as Palestinian terrorists of food, sweets and tobacco, and they then pass through prison as if on an assembly line, entering fat and leaving thin, starving and in tears. Critics likened the scene to a Nazi concentration camp.
Alberta's police watchdog found no criminal offence by an Alberta Sheriffs peace officer who admitted creating fake sexual images of three women, including coworkers, apparently with an app that converts social-media photos. ASIRT called the conduct serious and harmful, but said Canadian law did not yet cover AI intimate imagery at the time. The officer has been removed from active duty.
Vero Beach police arrested Peter Solomon Ruma, 37, who is held on a $1 million bond. He faces eight charges, including creating and promoting altered sexual depictions, sexual cyber harassment and stalking, relating to one woman between June and August 2026. Police say he used photos from social media, and they believe there are more victims, possibly over years.
A federal judge in the Central District of Illinois fined attorney David Baldemar Reyes $1,000 and ordered him to send the order to Illinois's attorney disciplinary commission. His default-judgment motion in an ADA website-access case contained hallucinated citations, the same ones for which a Wisconsin federal court had also ordered him to show cause.
Tamil Nadu's CB-CID Cyber Crime Cell registered a case on 1 September over an AI-generated deepfake video with Hindi audio. The video impersonates Chief Minister C Vijay Joseph offering financial assistance and directs viewers to a WhatsApp number. Police say several similar videos are circulating on Facebook, some from accounts purportedly based in Pakistan, and they have asked Meta for account logs.
