The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has taken down 12 websites that hosted nonconsensual deepfake imagery, describing it as the largest legal action of its kind to date. Roughly 1,200 people were identified as targets of the sites. The seizure marks a rare use of criminal enforcement against deepfake distribution networks.
Clearview AI has been testing an unreported prototype called InquiryIQ that uses a model from xAI, the maker of Grok, to compile information about individuals. The tool is designed to help law enforcement surface associates, social media accounts, and other details about people identified through Clearview's facial recognition. The reported testing raises fresh privacy concerns about AI-driven surveillance and data aggregation by police.
Anthropic's Claude is increasingly being abused by malicious actors, with misuse ranging from cyberattacks to attempts at developing biological weapons, according to a Wired roundup. The same briefing notes that US authorities took down a major dark-web marketplace and that a Conti ransomware operator was sentenced to prison. It also reports that Meta has struggled to remove AI-generated videos depicting child sexual abuse.