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Grammarly's AI Expert Review Allegedly Used Journalists' and Authors' Names Without Consent

Mar 11, 2026

Grammarly's Expert Review feature, utilizing a large language model, is accused of generating editing suggestions under the names of journalists, authors, and academics without their approval. The federal class action led by Julia Angwin asserts this practice misappropriates iden...

Purported AI-Generated Nude Images Reportedly Used to Extort Wichita Man in Kansas

Mar 10, 2026

A concerning incident involving an AI-generated image extortion scam was reported in Wichita, Kansas. A man received nude images depicting h...

Purported Deepfake Scam Ad Reportedly Used Lara Lewington and Martin Lewis to Promote Quantum AI Scheme

Mar 9, 2026

Scammers allegedly used a fraudulent deepfake video featuring Lara Lewington, coupled with the endorsement of Martin Lewis, to peddle a susp...

Purported Gemini-Generated AI Images Reportedly Claimed U.S. Delta Force Soldiers Were Captured by the IRGC

Mar 5, 2026

Reports indicate that misleading images, allegedly generated by Gemini, were circulated on various platforms such as X and Facebook in multi...

Purported AI-Generated Inland Revenue Scam Ads Reportedly Impersonated New Zealand Commissioner Peter Mersi in Alleged Fake Crypto Tax Webinar

Mar 5, 2026

New Zealand Inland Revenue issued a warning about a scam utilizing a suspected AI-generated image of Commissioner Peter Mersi, allegedly usi...

Nippon Life Alleged ChatGPT Practiced Law Without a License in Illinois Disability Case

Mar 4, 2026

Nippon Life filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in Chicago, accusing their AI model, ChatGPT, of practicing law without a license. The complaint...

CodeWall's Autonomous Agent Reportedly Obtained Unauthorized Access to McKinsey’s Lilli AI Platform Database

Feb 28, 2026

CodeWall's autonomous agent is reported to have exploited vulnerabilities in McKinsey's Lilli AI platform, potentially gaining unauthorized...

Purported AI-Generated War Footage Reportedly Circulated Widely Online During the Opening Phase of the War in Iran

Feb 28, 2026

During the initial phase of the conflict in Iran, reports suggest that misleading AI-generated videos purportedly showcasing non-existent wa...

Washington State DOL's AI Phone System Reportedly Failed to Provide Spanish-Language Service to Callers Requesting Spanish

Feb 27, 2026

For months, callers to the Washington State Department of Licensing who selected Spanish received AI-generated English responses spoken with...

Anthropic Said DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax Used Fraudulent Accounts and Proxies to Illicitly Distill Claude Capabilities at Scale

Feb 23, 2026

Anthropic discovered widespread activities involving fraudulent accounts and proxy services, which were used to generate extensive interacti...

Purportedly AI-Generated Sepsis Alert Reportedly Prompted Potentially Inappropriate IV Fluid Administration for a Dialysis Patient, Averted by Clinician Intervention

Feb 17, 2026

A nurse at St. Rose Dominican Hospital in Henderson, Nevada reported an incident involving an older dialysis patient and an AI-generated sep...

Purported Deepfake TikTok Account Using Grainville School Branding in Jersey Reportedly Targeted Staff, Prompting Police Probe

Feb 16, 2026

A controversial TikTok account, which appeared to use the logo and branding of Grainville School in Jersey (Channel Islands), is said to hav...

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide

We use weekly snapshots of the AIID for stable reference. For the official suggested citation of a specific incident, use the “Cite this incident” link on each incident page.