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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 found that the piece had been prepared using Microsoft Copilot without the masthead's knowledge. Ellis admitted to utilizing Copilot for structu...

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...

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...

Purported AI Name-Reading System Reportedly Skipped and Misannounced Graduates at Arizona's Glendale Community College Commencement

May 15, 2026

During the May 2026 commencement ceremony at Glendale Community College in Arizona, an AI-powered name-reading system was reportedly used. T...

Hidden Prompt Injection in Brazilian Labor-Court Petition Reportedly Tried to Manipulate Galileu

May 13, 2026

According to recent reports, Galileu—an AI tool employed by Brazil's labor courts—detected hidden manipulative instructions in an initial pe...

Nonfiction Book 'The Future of Truth' Reportedly Included AI-Generated and Misattributed Quotations

May 12, 2026

Steven Rosenbaum's nonfiction book The Future of Truth has been reportedly accused of incorporating AI-generated or misattributed quotations...

Claude Console Reportedly Generated Phantom Legal Quotations in Trump Layoffs Court Filing

May 6, 2026

An attorney at Binnall Law Group, using Anthropic's Claude Console, reportedly drafted a motion to quash a subpoena regarding Trump administ...

Guelph, Ontario, Woman Reportedly Lost $14,000 in Purported Deepfake MrBeast Cryptocurrency Scam

May 5, 2026

A resident of Guelph, Ontario reported a significant financial loss estimated at $14,000 due to a suspected deepfake cryptocurrency scam inv...

Purportedly AI-Recreated Clips from Beastie Boys' 'Sabotage' Video Reportedly Appeared in FBI Promotional Video Posted by Kash Patel

May 4, 2026

An FBI promotional video, posted by Director Kash Patel, reportedly utilized AI-generated clips that bore striking resemblance to shots from...

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.