A traffic officer at Seoul's Dongdaemun police station was arrested in September after Busan police, working undercover in a Telegram chat room, traced deepfakes to him, Yonhap reports. Investigators say he made about 400 AI nude fakes of acquaintances between March 2022 and July and held some 5,600 illegal files, including child sexual exploitation material; he reportedly confessed.
U.S. District Judge Sara E. Hill suppressed drug evidence after ruling that a Tulsa County deputy violated the Fourth Amendment by pulling a month of a driver's Flock license-plate history, more than 50 sightings across multiple states, without a warrant. Hill called the system "a type of indiscriminate mass surveillance"; Flock says it expects the ruling to be appealed and overturned.
Meta's Muse agent can build a profile page for each person in a user's life, including people who never signed up or explicitly consented, according to internal instructions extracted by a researcher and shared with Wired US. The pages track known facts, shared history and unresolved issues; Meta's help centre warns non-users that their information may reach Muse.
A Bonita Springs, Florida, woman faces a felony charge of making a written threat after allegedly writing in Claude on September 26 that she would "shoot up" the sheriff's office, according to the arrest report. Claude's safety systems flagged the entry, a human reviewer deemed it credible and Anthropic reported it to police; she later said she uses Claude like a "diary".
An AI-generated video manipulating the lead actress's appearance in "Chuttamalle", a song from the 2024 film Devara: Part 1, to depict her in a sexually explicit manner circulated widely on social media before being taken down. Co-star Jr NTR called it "Disgusting, Sick and Shameless"; Chiranjeevi said he would seek an industry committee to work with cyber-crime authorities.
