Kalshi
Kalshi ran a creator's video as an ad after an AI face swap
The prediction market says the spot was about four months old and came from an outside agency, and the creator whose video it rebuilt was never asked.
Geraldo Levi Glick
AI influencers
An 80,000-follower mining influencer was AI, and Meta deleted her
The Perth "FIFO tradie" account sold a paid Fanvue subscription, and the only place the persona admitted she was generated was the small print of the paywalled page.
NO FAKES Act
NO FAKES Act would give creators a federal right to their likeness
The bipartisan bill would put a 10-year cap on likeness licenses and a de facto takedown duty on platforms, and its passage window this year is narrowing.
Thomson Reuters
Appeals court: training an AI on Westlaw notes is not fair use
The Third Circuit upheld Thomson Reuters' win over Ross Intelligence in the first US appellate ruling on AI training, and the court's reasoning is sealed.
right of publicity
Urvashi Rautela seeks ₹7,000 crore from Bollywood.AI
Her team says the Los Angeles company used her name, photos and videos without permission, and its chief executive called the claim ridiculous.
deepfakes
Bangkok flood catfish video is AI-made, fact-check finds
The clip spread on X and Instagram during real flooding that killed at least 23 people in Thailand, and a detection tool rated it 97% synthetic.
AI safety
OpenAI and DeepMind staff say AI could kill everyone
A nonprofit published 12 filmed interviews in which current and former employees of the two labs call human extinction plausible, and Reuters gave the project its exclusive.
spacexai
NYC Council subpoenas Elon Musk in AI safety probe
The council wants Musk or a SpaceXAI witness on October 5, after four other AI companies agreed to appear; the Grok lawsuits are the wider context.
AI-generated video
Fake AI videos of full mosque demolition sparked Ujjain clashes
Madhya Pradesh police say AI-generated clips falsely showing Ujjain's Shahi Masjid fully torn down helped draw the crowd that clashed with officers on September 28, 2026.
youku
Youku used an AI face swap to bring back a banned hit drama
The 2016 romance returned in 4K with a new actress's face over the original lead, and the swap is the product now.
deepfake
A White House aide's fake AI clip of his own party backfired
Dan Scavino posted a generated video of himself and Trump family members celebrating two days after a state dinner, and much of the criticism came from conservatives.
Qwen-Image-2.1
Viggle distills Qwen-Image-2.1 into a six-step student
A six-step distilled student of Qwen-Image-2.1 has been downloaded 133,151 times since September 22, and the research-only license keeps the output out of client work.
copyright
Wuhan court: an AI micro-drama is a copyrightable film
The Jiang'an District People's Court held that a 47-episode AI-assisted micro-drama is a protected audiovisual work, and counted token and tool-licensing costs when it set damages.
Equity
Equity pushes AI contract protections as Tilly Norwood turns one
The UK performers' union says film and TV contracts will carry mandatory AI terms and wants the government to legislate personality rights over voice and likeness.
Suno
Sony and Universal Music sue Suno again over 60,202 songs
The September 18 complaint alleges Suno trained its v6 models partly on outputs of its earlier, unlicensed models, a practice the labels call model laundering.
ByteDance
ByteDance's YouTube scraping defense draws a skeptical judge
A San Francisco judge questioned the company's argument that downloading public YouTube videos is not the unauthorized access the DMCA's anti-circumvention rule covers.
Kalshi
Kalshi's AI ad turned a creator's video into a white man
Elliot Choy posted his own apartment tour beside an almost identical ad for the prediction market, and Kalshi now says it is reviewing the agency that supplied it.
California
Gavin Newsom signs law requiring AI actors in ads to be labeled
The law takes effect January 1, 2027 and puts AI actors inside California's false advertising statute.
ACTx486
ACTx486 puts new words in Elon Musk's mouth, and labels them
Karina Nguyen and Jakub Zegzulka's research demo puts new words in Elon Musk's mouth over real podcast footage, and labels every generated second.
Israel election
AI attack ads dominate Israel's election, WSJ reports
The Wall Street Journal reports AI-made attack ads have overtaken conventional smears in Israel's race, with Likud tied to the most AI-flagged campaign posts.