A male student at a Sydney school received a one-day suspension after an AI-generated explicit deepfake of a female staff member was allegedly created and shared in a student WhatsApp group, The Sunday Telegraph reports; several students were allegedly involved. Separately, SafeWork NSW issued notices, including an improvement notice, over psychosocial risks to staff.
Researchers describe VOLTA, a self-deleting Windows infostealer that bundles a victim's stolen credentials, home address, employer and order history and sends them via OpenRouter to an LLM told to act as "a forensic intelligence analyst," including a section on "WHAT THEY'RE WORTH." If the default Claude model refuses, it falls back to Kimi, then Gemini.
At an October 30 bankruptcy hearing in Wilmington, Judge Brendan Shannon said he would "strongly encourage" Character Technologies to hire a privacy ombudsman over its handling of minors' data, while approving auction procedures that let Disney open with a $20 million bid for a licence to Character.AI technology, over objections from attorneys general of 41 states.
Aaron David Randall, 35, was sentenced to eight years in the Florida Department of Corrections plus three years' probation after convictions including eight counts of possessing generated child pornography. Arrested in 2024 after a NCMEC tip, he told investigators he made the AI images to "scam pedophiles," though the report says his chats showed active participation.
Pune police have registered a case against 23 people, including a Dubai-based alleged mastermind, over an alleged ₹14.70 crore fraud in which 21 investors were promised monthly returns of 6% to 50% from AI bot trading on the 'Bot Bro' platform. The complaint alleges the firms rebranded as 'Bot Alpha' and others after Enforcement Directorate action in February 2025.
Reality TV star Terseer Waya, known as Kiddwaya, has threatened legal action over AI-generated nude videos of him circulating online, calling them fake and accusing those behind them of misusing his identity. "My lawyers are watching very carefully. Kirikiri prison direct," the former Big Brother Naija housemate wrote, invoking the Lagos correctional facility.
