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Purported Deepfake Ads Reportedly Fabricated BBC Question Time Confrontations Between Andrew Bailey and Nigel Farage

Jun 8, 2026

Reports claim AI-generated ads on X platform presented staged encounters between Bank of England governor, Andrew Bailey, and Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage. These false ads exploited the simulated Bailey-Farage clash as a cover for an investment scam disguised as BBC-style finan...

Reddit Scam Ads Reportedly Used Deepfake News Segments and Cloned Media Sites to Promote Allegedly Fake AI Investment Platforms

Jun 4, 2026

A report claims that sponsored Reddit ads, masquerading as legitimate financial news from sources such as BBC, Financial Times, and The Guar...

Humanoid Robot Identified as Likely Unitree G1 Reportedly Kicked Boy During Public Demonstration in Xinjiang

Jun 1, 2026

A boy in Xinjiang was reportedly struck in the abdomen by a humanoid robot during a public performance at a scenic-area amusement venue. The...

The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age Removed an Opinion Article After Undisclosed Copilot Use

May 31, 2026

An opinion article by Western Sydney University academic Cath Ellis was removed from The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age after it was foun...

Meta AI Support Bot Reportedly Enabled Takeovers of High-Profile Instagram Accounts

May 31, 2026

Recent reports claim hackers manipulated Meta's AI support chatbot to change email information of high-profile Instagram accounts, resulting...

Italian Mediaset Journalist Safiria Leccese's Image Was Reportedly Used in a Purportedly AI-Generated Fake Loan Scam

May 31, 2026

Reports indicate that scammers allegedly utilized AI to fabricate false social media profiles and a video imitating Mediaset journalist Safi...

Reported AI-Generated Image Portrayed Vetëvendosje Official Dejona Mihali Meeting Aleksandar Vučić

May 30, 2026

The Facebook page Gjithqka rreth Politikes reportedly published an image falsely suggesting that Dejona Mihali, a senior Vetëvendosje offici...

COEMPT Quality Assurance Engineers Allegedly Violated Indian CBSE Student Data Privacy Rights by Processing It with Google Gemini

May 30, 2026

A report by The Hindu reveals potential data privacy issues with India's Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) OnMark exam-marking por...

Scammers Reportedly Used AI-Cloned Daughter's Voice to Defraud Bay Area Mother in Fake Kidnapping Call

May 24, 2026

Deborah Del Mastro of Martinez, California, allegedly transferred $5,400 to Mexico following a fraudulent claim that her daughter Sarah had...

Texas Man Arturo Hernandez Allegedly Published AI-Generated Deepfake Pornography Depicting Women in TAKE IT DOWN Act Case

May 19, 2026

The Department of Justice (DOJ) accused Texas resident Arturo Hernandez of sharing approximately 113 albums featuring AI-generated deepfakes...

Purportedly AI-Generated Images Allegedly Linked Sami Lushtaku to Banjska Attack Suspect Milan Radoičić

May 16, 2026

The Facebook page ZËRI Shqiptar reportedly published AI-generated images purporting to show Sami Lushtaku, the mayor of Skenderaj, Kosovo, t...

Purportedly AI-Manipulated Videos Reportedly Targeted Former Kosovo MP Paris Guri and LDK Youth Members Before Snap Elections

May 15, 2026

Reports suggest Facebook videos, potentially manipulated by AI, were directed at former Kosovo Member of Parliament Paris Guri and the LDK Y...

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.