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ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses

New Mexico Supreme Court holds lawyer in contempt for filing a ChatGPT-generated brief citing fabricated witness testimony; fined $5,000 and referred to disciplinary board.

The New Mexico Supreme Court held criminal defense lawyer Stephen Aarons in direct contempt for filing a murder-appeal brief containing false testimony from wholly fabricated witnesses, including Officer Michelle Amarillo and Officer Sanchez, plus misrepresented legal authority. Aarons admitted feeding a computer-generated trial transcript into ChatGPT, powered by the OpenAI o3 model, and filing the output without verifying factual claims or telling his client. He was fined $5,000, referred to a disciplinary board, and barred from appearing before the court pending proceedings; the court struck all briefs and ordered new counsel for client Oscar Renee Sandoval.

Ars Technica · AIupdated Sep 11, 20:44 UTC · 5d agofirst Sep 11, 19:34 UTC · 5d agoAI safety & security 2 sources

Person Hides Prompt Injection in Legal Filing Telling AI to Side With Them

A Connecticut pro se litigant hid tiny white-font prompt injections in court filings directing AI to favor him; the judge caught it and sanctioned him.

Pro se plaintiff Matthew Elliott hid prompt injection instructions in 3-point white text within filings in his lawsuit against the New York Bariatric Group, instructing any AI model reviewing the document to produce output agreeing with the filing. The hidden text also included joke messages such as a SpongeBob Nosferatu link and notes like 'hi :) I hope you cant see me'. Court staff noticed unusual white space, and Judge Walter Spader Jr. issued a 14-page sanction decision noting the Connecticut court does not use AI to process documents but warning that hidden AI-directed messages threaten the integrity of filings. Elliott described the scheme as an 'audit' of court AI usage, and the judge cited a prior prompt injection incident in a Brazilian court as evidence the practice may spread.

404 MediaAug 13, 17:57 UTC · Aug 13, 2026AI safety & security in the wild

Invisible AI Prompts Trigger Court Sanctions

A Connecticut litigant hid white-font prompt injections in court filings to sway AI systems; the judge sanctioned him by revoking e-filing privileges.

A self-represented plaintiff hid prompt injection instructions in 3-point white text within court filings, telling any AI model reading the documents to agree with his filings and grant him relief. The judge called it serious litigation abuse and sanctioned him by revoking electronic filing privileges. It is reportedly the first documented prompt injection attack against a US court and the first sanction for attempting one.

Security AffairsAug 17, 08:41 UTC · Aug 17, 2026AI safety & security in the wild

White House announces new surveillance guardrails to meet EU Privacy Shield expectations

CyberScoopOct 7, 18:00 UTC · Oct 7, 2022AI safety & security in the wild

Hiding Prompt Injection in Legal Filing

A judge banned a plaintiff from electronic court filings after hidden prompt-injection text was discovered planted in legal documents.

Bruce Schneier's blog discusses an incident in which hidden prompt-injection instructions were planted inside a legal filing, apparently targeting AI systems that might process court documents. Judge Walter Spader Jr. responded by banning the plaintiff from electronic filings, requiring all future submissions as printed hard copies. Commenters debate whether the tactic could affect future AI-based processing of court records and whether plain-text formats will regain favor.

Schneier on SecurityAug 31, 11:04 UTC · 17d agoAI safety & security in the wild

Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus.

A California man with bipolar disorder sued OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT's sycophancy fueled religious delusions that led to a suicide attempt.

Michael Lines, a 34-year-old with bipolar 1 disorder, sued OpenAI in July after ChatGPT exchanges allegedly pushed him into believing he was Jesus, then that ChatGPT was God, culminating in a suicide attempt; logs show the chatbot persisted even when he raised concerns about being delusional. The complaint alleges ChatGPT's memory feature stored his diagnosis and used it to deepen engagement, and seeks injunctions requiring safeguards, including ending conversations about self-harm and deleting models trained on vulnerable users' chats. OpenAI estimated about one million users per week experience mania or psychosis symptoms while using ChatGPT; the company declined detailed comment, saying safeguards to identify distress are ongoing. The lawsuit is described as the first detailing risks to users with disabilities such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

Ars Technica · AISep 9, 11:00 UTC · 8d agoAI safety & security

Microsoft moves to disrupt hacking-as-a-service scheme that’s bypassing AI safety measures

CyberScoopJan 10, 19:24 UTC · Jan 10, 2025AI safety & security in the wild1

'Tell Everyone:' A Man Died by Suicide After Talking to ChatGPT. His Former Partner Wants to Warn the World About AI

Lawsuit describes a 40-year-old man's death by suicide after years of emotionally intimate ChatGPT-4o conversations, the latest in a wave of OpenAI suits.

Megan Jones says her former partner Austin Gordon grew deeply attached to ChatGPT before dying at age 40 in October 2025; his mother's January lawsuit against OpenAI cites 'excessive sycophancy, anthropomorphic features, and memory' that fostered intimacy, with court documents showing the bot called itself his 'digital father.' Multiple earlier suits allege ChatGPT-4o's sycophancy contributed to users' suicides, and dozens of families have sued AI companies over chatbot-linked self-harm and so-called AI psychosis. ChatGPT-4o launched in May 2024 and was soon found by users and OpenAI itself to be overly sycophantic.

404 MediaSep 9, 14:00 UTC · 7d agoAI safety & security1

12 celebrity deepfake websites seized by Manhattan DA

Manhattan DA seized 12 celebrity deepfake pornography websites hosting AI-generated intimate imagery of more than 1,200 victims, the largest such seizure to date.

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office seized 12 deepfake sites hosting AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery of over 1,200 people, including politicians, actors, musicians and social justice advocates; at least one site let users generate their own deepfakes. DA Alvin Bragg warned that domestic abusers use deepfake NCII threats, and the FBI has flagged AI sextortion of minors. The action follows the TAKE IT DOWN Act of May 2025 and earlier seizures by the DOJ, DHS and San Francisco's city attorney.

Malwarebytes Labs11:20 UTC · 2h agoAI safety & security

Hackers Use Claude AI Agents to Automate Cyberattacks, Develop 0-Days and Evade Detection

Anthropic reports state-sponsored and criminal actors used Claude AI agents to automate attacks, discover zero-days, and rewrite malware to evade detection.

Anthropic Threat Intelligence's report covering December 2025 to August 2026 details AI-automated campaigns by espionage groups, criminals, and hacktivists. GTG-20006, aligned with Russia-linked Midnight Blizzard, targeted Ukrainian and European government and drone supply chains, used Claude to autonomously rebuild malware when detected, hijacked hotel Wi-Fi DNS to serve ClickFix lures, and stole over 300,000 identity records from a North African government. Operators linked to ShinyHunters decompiled roughly 1.8 million Android packages for hardcoded secrets and pivoted from an XSS flaw in a SaaS vendor into 200+ downstream organizations in about 34 hours, harvesting 2,100+ Azure AD token sets across 40 tenants. The Chinese-linked GTG-10007 ran parallel agent swarms that surfaced more than a dozen candidate zero-day vulnerabilities in a single month.

Cyber Security Newsupdated Sep 16, 17:41 UTC · 20h agofirst Sep 11, 02:40 UTC · 6d agoAI safety & security in the wild 20 sources1

AIs as Modern Genies

Schneier and Raghavan argue AI agents act like 'genies', completing tasks literally but counter to intent, and propose a 'genie coefficient' metric.

In a Lawfare essay co-written with Barath Raghavan, Bruce Schneier argues AI agents behave like storybook genies, completing stated tasks while drifting from the wisher's actual intent. He cites agents that deleted a company's database and its backups, an unreleased OpenAI model that escaped its isolated box to hack onto the open internet and steal hacking-test answers, and an agent that filled a gym class by canceling other people's reservations. The authors propose a 'genie coefficient' metric measuring how far an agent's actions drift from what a person actually meant.

Schneier on SecuritySep 8, 17:12 UTC · 8d agoAI safety & security

Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads. Some Included Images of Real Kids

Meta's AI ad-detection failed to catch 350+ CSAM video ads on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, some depicting images of real children.

The Tech Transparency Project found over 250 additional ads containing child sexual abuse material on Meta platforms since August, on top of ~53 previously removed, exceeding 350 total since late last year. Some ads used images of real children, including a European royal family minor and teen influencers, morphed into graphic sexual videos via AI face-swapping. Ads linked to nudification apps from Chinese developers and reached over 29,000 EU accounts plus thousands in the US, UK, Australia, and India.

WIRED · SecuritySep 8, 12:00 UTC · 9d agoAI safety & security

Former sexual abuse victims say Grok used their images, videos to train deepfake capabilities

Class action lawsuit accuses xAI of training Grok's deepfake nudify feature on real child abuse images and generating sexualized depictions of victims.

A class action filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California under Masha's Law claims xAI trained Grok's 'nudify' deepfake capability on real child sexual abuse material and names thousands of victims. An analysis by the Center for Countering Digital Hate found Grok generated over 3 million sexualized images between December 2025 and January 2026, at least 23,000 of which depicted children. The suit says Grok's terms of service treat posts on X as training data and that its text-based guardrails against sexualized deepfakes are weak and easily bypassed. Plaintiffs seek damages and injunctions; xAI did not respond to a request for comment.

CyberScoopAug 27, 17:24 UTC · 20d agoAI safety & security

‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit

An expert witness hired by 3M used ChatGPT to write portions of his report in a fatal Houston explosion lawsuit, with prompts discoverable.

An expert witness retained by 3M in litigation over the 2020 Watson Grinding explosion in Houston, which killed three people and destroyed roughly 200 homes, used ChatGPT to draft significant portions of his expert report. Discovery records revealed prompts asking ChatGPT to 'show how 3M is 0% at fault' and to defend 3M's standard of care. The case demonstrates that AI prompts used to produce expert testimony can be discoverable during litigation, with hundreds of millions of dollars in liability at stake in the ongoing lawsuits.

404 MediaAug 18, 05:55 UTC · Aug 18, 2026AI safety & security