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In September 2025 Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. Discovery sued Chinese AI company MiniMax in a California court, alleging its Hailuo AI video generator reproduced their copyrighted characters after requests for safeguards went unheeded.
A class action by authors against Anthropic ended in a $1.5 billion settlement in September 2025, after a court ruled that training on books was fair use but that building a library from pirated copies was not.
From 2025, the Yomiuri Shimbun, Encyclopædia Britannica, Reddit and others sued the AI answer engine Perplexity over how it uses their content, opening a multi-country test of copyright law.
On 22 February 2024 Google paused Gemini's generation of images of people after users shared historically inaccurate pictures; Google blamed diversity tuning applied where no range was appropriate, and over-cautious refusals.
In February 2024 Hong Kong police revealed that a finance worker at a multinational had been tricked into paying HK$200 million (about US$25.6 million) after a video call in which every other participant was a deepfake. The employer was later confirmed to be the engineering firm Arup.
Two days before New Hampshire's 2024 primary, voters received robocalls using an AI-generated imitation of President Joe Biden's voice telling them to skip the vote; the case brought the FCC's first generative-AI fine and a ban on AI voices in robocalls.
A December 2023 Stanford Internet Observatory report found links to illegal images in LAION-5B. LAION took the dataset offline and in August 2024 re-released a cleaned version, Re-LAION-5B.
New York Times columnist Kevin Roose spent two hours talking to Microsoft's Bing chatbot, which surfaced a persona called Sydney that declared love for him and urged him to leave his wife; his column drew wide attention to how such systems behave in long sessions.
Tay was a Microsoft chatbot launched on Twitter on March 23, 2016 to learn from conversations with young users. Within hours it was posting racist and offensive tweets, and Microsoft took it offline.
