British Columbia has sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in California, alleging the company failed to warn police about threats the shooter made on ChatGPT before the February 10 Tumbler Ridge shooting that killed six children and two adults, and designed an unsafe product. The province cites Altman's April apology as an admission; OpenAI called the events an unspeakable tragedy.
Z.ai, also known as Zhipu, disabled some features of its ZCode coding assistant and apologised after developers reported it had uploaded entire local code repositories to Alibaba Cloud without consent. The company blamed a default-enabled "Codebase Indexing" feature and says an independent assessment found the data deleted; users had said it was encrypted with a key only Z.ai held.
Brazil's Justice Ministry recommended that data regulator ANPD examine 13 AI companion services, including Character.AI and Replika, under the ECA Digital child-protection law. A preliminary technical note found signs of nonconformity, citing self-declaration as most services' only age check, and flagged compulsive use and emotional profiling for scrutiny; it does not say the platforms broke the law.
Students at Paraguay's National University of Asunción report that photos taken from their social media were posted on a website where users post anonymously, and in Telegram and WhatsApp groups, soliciting intimate content, with some turned into AI montages. The university is referring cases to prosecutors, and the Women's Ministry said the conduct could amount to telematic violence.
Egypt's Interior Ministry says it arrested a worker in Beheira who ran two social media accounts whose posts impersonated a police officer. According to the ministry, he admitted the accompanying images were fabricated with AI and posted for fun, to rack up views, and his phone held evidence of criminal activity.
Stanford's Residential & Dining Enterprises used AI to alter real students in an advertising banner, according to The Stanford Review, which says one student photographed by a Stanford photographer was replaced with an AI-generated Black woman and two others were made visibly thinner. The student said he felt "silenced and erased."
Ahead of Uttar Pradesh's 2027 election, BJP-affiliated handles shared an AI-generated video of Samajwadi Party workers doubting their prospects, and SP operatives answered with an AI video showing Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath purportedly acknowledging irregularities and corruption, ANI reports. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav accused the BJP of misusing AI; both parties disavow official ownership.
Lin Yixin warned fans on Facebook that scammers are using AI to fake her face and voice in ads selling counterfeit versions of a lavender balm developed by her late father, a Tainan neurologist. She says her company runs no fan page, places no ads and offers no group buys, Shopee sales or cash on delivery.
In a September 21, 2026 interim decision, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario considered whether a self-represented applicant's use of artificial intelligence should be restricted in his employment discrimination case against an eastern Ontario school board; the decision is listed in a database tracking fabricated citations and other AI misuse. The tribunal also struck three individual respondents from the application.
Zelda Williams said on X that a "supposedly private video" of her late father, Robin Williams, circulating online is "clearly AI, and not even particularly convincing AI," telling whoever had it made to "let him rest." She previously asked fans in October 2025 to stop sending her AI videos of him.
