AI-Generated Images of the Iconic Hollywood Sign Reportedly on Fire Circulating on Social Media
January 8, 2025
During the January 2025 Southern California wildfires, AI-generated images of the iconic Hollywood Sign being on fire circulated on social media.
- Alleged deployer
- social-media-users
- Alleged developer
- unknown-ai-image-generator-technology-developers
- Alleged harmed parties
- southern-california-residents
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/890
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.
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