Police in Northern Ireland say a victim in the Ards and north Down area lost £250,000 after seeing an apparently AI-generated video of a well-known financial-sector personality promoting an investment. The PSNI, which did not name the celebrity, says fraudsters then used WhatsApp, gained remote access to the victim's computer and urged them to borrow money to keep investing.
UN human rights chief Volker Türk told the Human Rights Council he was gravely concerned by reports that fully autonomous drones launched by Russia killed three Ukrainians. The New York Times reported a Russian AI-guided drone killed three civilians in Zaporizhzhia on 6 July after operators sent it to a petrol station and it picked its exact target without human input.
A 21-year-old Indian junior powerlifter says the online attention that followed a world-championship medal brought thousands of non-consensual AI-generated indecent images of her, along with sexual harassment, racist abuse, fake accounts and the suspension of her own account after malicious reports.
Consumer group Facua has reported francrafts.shop to Spain's Directorate General for Consumer Affairs, saying it markets handbags with AI-generated videos of "Fran", a young man with Down syndrome shown knitting, sad about poor sales or being bullied, to sell on compassion. Facua also alleges abusive terms, including prices that exclude taxes.
