A women's group of the Negeri Sembilan Chinese Assembly Hall condemned an incident in which secondary school students allegedly used AI to turn several female students' photos into indecent images, then spread and sold them. It said such images can cause deep harm whether real or not, and urged the school and authorities to protect the victims' privacy, provide counselling and investigate.
Actor Wu Yue said on Weibo early on October 18 that WeChat Channels account '花姐美肤日记' posted an AI video of a face-swapped 'Wu Yue' promoting a product in Wu Yue's voice, ending with an apparent Deng Yaping clip, and demanded the account repay whoever it had cheated. The video carried an AI-content label. WeChat said the account was permanently banned.
Jammu Police registered a case under the Official Secrets Act against a serving Army Major's wife, who officials allege prepared papers on Line of Control dynamics, Arunachal Pradesh infrastructure and drone deployment for suspected Chinese intelligence contacts. She has not been arrested, is cooperating, and says her work relied on open-source research supplemented by ChatGPT and Claude.
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The BJD lodged a complaint at Bhubaneswar's Capital Police Station alleging unidentified social media users used AI and voice cloning to fabricate videos of party leader Sujata Rout Karthikeyan, including one purportedly showing Karthikeyan threatening the principal of Kendrapara Autonomous College over student elections. The party wants the account operators identified and legal action taken against all involved.
Several owners of Ray-Ban Meta glasses reported that the devices recorded private conversations without the 'Hey Meta' wake word, even with automatic listening disabled, saving audio and transcripts to the Meta AI app, Ars Technica reports. One Reddit user linked it to a firmware update. Meta said the bug was fixed but did not say what caused it or how many users were affected.
A Kyiv Independent investigation of 58 cases referred by the charity Helping to Leave found scammers posing on dating sites as women trapped in Russian-occupied Ukraine, using stolen photos, forged passports and AI-manipulated images to solicit money for escape costs. Many of the women were not where claimed, some identities were wholly fabricated, and some men did send money.
Actor Tiger Shroff's team said fabricated stories, AI-generated videos and scripted narratives about a recent shooting incident were circulating online and being falsely attributed to him. Team Tiger said he had issued no statements or videos, urged media and platforms to verify before publishing, and warned that those creating or spreading the content could face legal action.
