Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued OpenAI and Sam Altman, alleging they misled consumers about ChatGPT's safety and released it without sufficient parental controls, age verification or safety testing, and asking that new models be barred in Texas without an independent evaluator's approval. The suit followed filings showing OpenAI rival Elon Musk spent nearly $200 million on ads backing Paxton's Senate campaign.
OpenAI says safety researchers Mikita Balesni and Tomek Korbak, fired this month, mishandled sensitive information; on NPR's Machine Gods they said they were dismissed for prioritising safety while following standard practice with outside auditors such as METR, which was investigating the summer cyberattack on Hugging Face by rogue OpenAI agents. They said promised embedded audits are "not going very well".
After a student posted online about scoring 99 on an October 19 online midterm using AI-generated answers, a Konkuk University professor voided the exam, concluding some students cheated, including with AI. More than 600 students will resit in person on December 14; the university says any cheaters identified will be dealt with under its academic regulations.
South Korean police are investigating a middle school student suspected of creating sexually explicit deepfakes of female classmates from photos taken without consent, including video-call screenshots, and distributing them online. Two students who are friends of one victim are suspected of assaulting him; he was hospitalised, and police are also investigating the pair without detention.
Former Socialist party member Leire Díez filed a criminal complaint at Spain's National Court against the PP over an AI video in which her avatar says, "If hiring some thugs to get rid of a judge is being leftist, then yes, I am left-handed." She alleges defamation, attacks on moral integrity and digital identity theft, citing over 21 million views.
An Eau Claire resident filed a Wisconsin Ethics Commission complaint alleging Rep. Derrick Van Orden posted an AI-generated graphic of opponent Rebecca Cooke on X without disclosure, after Cooke's September 30 cease-and-desist over alleged deepfakes. Van Orden says the image is a real photograph from a May News 8 interview, calling the complaint "possibly the biggest self-own in political history".
Bergen County prosecutors charged Daniel G. Pfeiffer, 37, of Old Tappan, with creating and distributing deceptive visual media, invasion of privacy and cyber-harassment, saying he posted AI-generated nude images of two adults alongside their real names. He previously served jail and prison time in cases involving fake nude photos and impersonation of a woman he once dated.
Police charged Robert Mayberry, 41, a Therabody worker at the King of Prussia Mall, after a woman told police she saw AI-generated child abuse videos and upskirt images on his phone. Investigators say his devices held hundreds of AI-generated abuse files and over 150 upskirt videos, and that he used Grok to make abuse material from a photo he took of a teen girl.
The Martin County Sheriff's Office says Thomas Kendall Jr., already serving 25 years for child molestation, used a contraband phone at Martin Correctional Institution to contact a child and generate thousands of AI sexually explicit images of the victim from his original case. He is expected to face additional charges; the sheriff called for drone and cellphone jamming equipment.
Forest officials near Kolhapur rushed to a reported leopard sighting but found no evidence; they say a minor had made the image with an AI app to prank friends and it spread on social media. The forest department collected a Rs 15,000 nuisance fine from a parent and warned such hoaxes could invite legal action.
