404 Media: ChatGPT lawyer cited fake witnesses, top NCII sites lean on Cloudflare and Google
404 Media · rss · 2026-10-01
AI items from 404 Media's briefing:
- A New Mexico attorney used ChatGPT to generate briefs with completely fabricated witnesses and testimony while defending a man accused of shooting his wife; caught, he blamed his own 'stupidity.'
- A new study finds the most prominent non-consensual AI imagery sites rely on mainstream infrastructure providers—Cloudflare, Google, Proton, Namecheap, WordPress—for hosting, email, advertising, and CMS.
- A phone-hacking company claims it can freeze iPhones in a state letting cops more easily access sensitive data.
- Effective altruists are debating 'torturing' LLMs (the AI Saw phenomenon).
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