“When TOI ran the image through Hive Moderation, an AI-content detection tool, it returned a 93.2% score indicating AI-generated content.”
A state legislator in Madurai, India, posted before-and-after photos showing a garbage dump cleared. The Times of India reports that a detection tool scored the 'after' photo as 93.2% likely AI-generated, which the legislator denies, and that its reporter visited and found heaps of garbage still there.
“Be nice to Claude; it’s the law.”
Anthropic has updated its usage rules to prohibit "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" toward its AI models, with the change taking effect on November 12, 2026. Gizmodo asked the company whether calling the chatbot a "clanker" counts and had not received a reply by publication.
“AI is central to how Quartz reports, produces, and publishes the news.”
Press Gazette reports that nearly all the daily news on the business site Quartz carries a single byline, which had at least 52 articles on October 8 alone, on subjects from dog breeds to cybersecurity. An AI-detection tool the trade paper co-developed rated two of the pieces it checked as 100% AI-generated; Quartz's own disclaimer says AI is central to how it produces the news.
“park officials confirmed nothing of the kind ever happened — every frame was AI-generated”
A video of a brown bear begging tourists for food at the Kanas scenic area in Xinjiang, China, spread widely online. The park's management committee has now said twice that no tourist fed a bear and no bear did any of it: the whole series was made with AI.
“Matt, can you please rethink your fascination with AI-generated programmes?”
After the head of the BBC said an AI-generated episode of Doctor Who he had been sent was "pretty good", BBC staff raised it with him at a staff meeting, where a question asking him to rethink his interest in AI-made programmes reportedly drew more than 80 upvotes. He joked that he "got in trouble" and said humans are leading.
“Our goal was to make visiting the farm easier but we heard that you want the helpful information with the familiar charm of Spicers”
A family-owned apple orchard in Michigan, in business since 1967, put up AI-generated signs and art to help visitors find their way around. After hearing from customers, it announced it was taking all of it down.
“Full disclosure, we have used AI in the past for our graphic design, for posters, for print”
A small theatre company in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, had been using AI to make its show posters to save money. Its executive director now says the company will stop and pay its graphic designer instead, as much as it can afford.
“came up as 81% AI-written, including Jon Haarlow’s quote, WSU’s vice president and director of Athletics.”
Washington State University's athletics department announced it will use an AI writing service for game recaps and player features, and students and alumni complained online. The student newspaper ran the announcement through an AI detector, which rated it 81% AI-written, including the athletic director's own quote.
“The ones who made it, they learnt the lesson that they shouldn’t have rushed it.”
The first poster for a film about cricketer Sourav Ganguly was criticised by fans in July for looking AI-generated. The film's lead actor, Rajkummar Rao, now says the team that made the poster learnt not to rush, and that films cannot be made entirely with AI.
“It is the same cadence and structure every time”
The Dutch Prime Minister told parliament that "no AI was used" on his official social media accounts. A Dutch newspaper then reported finding at least five posts there that a detection tool and two experts judged to be AI-written, with openers like "The world is in turmoil." The government's press office did not deny AI was used, but disputed that the posts were generated entirely by AI.
“finance teams are spending 26% of their working week checking AI output to ensure it's accurate”
A survey of 270 chief financial officers found finance teams spend about a quarter of their working week checking AI output, and more than half have seen AI give different answers to the same prompt and data. More than half of them also expect to spend more on AI licenses this year.
“A human will call you.”
Two residents of Orland Park, Illinois, told the village board that Humphrey, the AI chatbot now answering the village's main phone number, kept promising to connect them to a person and never did. One said she called four times; the other said a question about the Pumpkin Party ended with a trip to Village Hall. The mayor promised a follow-up by a human.
“First result: real book. Second result: AI lookalike by “K. Rose.” Embarrassing!”
A day after journalist Kevin Roose's book about the AI industry went on sale, Futurism reports, an apparently AI-made lookalike credited to "K. Rose" was showing up directly beneath it in Amazon's search results, priced about five dollars cheaper. Amazon listed the lookalike as the #1 new release in its category.
“we have decided to discontinue the use of AI-generated imagery in our social media content”
A smoked chicken chain and a bagel shop in Austin, Texas, each posted an apology and said they would stop using AI-made images on social media after customers objected. The bagel shop said its AI-made festival weather post reached more than 600,000 people; its usual posts reach about 200.
“Almost all of the comments are negative, and there are many from people vowing to never buy Fanta again.”
Fanta is running an AI-made Halloween advert, shown in cinemas before films, featuring a cyborg Frankenstein and a werewolf DJ. Creative Bloq reports that nearly all the social media comments on it are negative.
“However, there are millennial and Gen Z parents who aren’t happy in the least.”
Grandparents are using AI tools to make storybooks and photo albums that show their grandchildren as superheroes or riding elephants in Africa. The trend now has a name, "grandmaslop", and a family-media blog reports that some younger parents are not pleased.
“It took days before viewers began realizing it was simply AI-generated.”
A clip of a dancing imp turning straw into gold spread online as a meme, and people went looking for the old film it came from, with some settling on a 1987 musical. There was no film. The clip was made with AI in August.
“looks like some tourist tat you would find on a t-shirt on the Royal Mile”
A leaked British Army presentation shows the cap badge for a new Scottish officer training regiment as an image labelled "AI Generated Concept". Officer cadets told the paper it resembles a souvenir T-shirt. The Ministry of Defence says AI was only used to visualise ideas.
“What I’m seeing is there are some enormous AI-generated complaints.”
A district council in Lincolnshire, England, says it is falling behind on answering complaints partly because residents now send AI-written ones. Its leader said a complaint used to be half a page and now sometimes runs to 20 or 30 pages.
“you don’t want to put a photo out there of a six fingered quarterback and the paw upside down.”
A student newspaper in Missouri reports that its university's official football account marked the first day of classes with a graphic of a player who had six fingers on one hand. A former players' group also posted the team's bearcat paw logo with six toes instead of four.
