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Weekly Review

At the 2026 AIDS conference in Rio de Janeiro, U.S. State Department officials mislabeled every country on a map of Africa in a presentation likely generated with artificial intelligence. A Pennsylvania private school where two male students used AI to generate sexually explicit deepfakes of more than 50 female classmates asked a court to dismiss the resulting lawsuit. An OnlyFans model accused of using dating apps to steal from wealthy men was arrested for her connection to the theft of luxury goods at a music festival.

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At the 2026 AIDS conference, in Rio de Janeiro, U.S. State Department officials mislabeled every country on a map of Africa in a presentation likely generated with artificial intelligence; a Pennsylvania private school where two male students used AI to generate sexually explicit deepfakes of more than 50 female classmates asked a court to dismiss the resulting lawsuit; an OnlyFans model who has been accused of using dating apps to steal from wealthy men was arrested for her connection to the theft of luxury goods at a music festival.

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