ChatGPT Provided Non-Existent Citations and Links when Prompted by Users
Nov 30, 2022
When prompted about providing references, ChatGPT was reportedly generating non-existent but convincing-looking citations and links, which i...
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Data source & citationThousands of Incorrect ChatGPT-Produced Answers Posted on Stack Overflow
Nov 30, 2022
Thousands of incorrect answers produced by OpenAI's ChatGPT were submitted to Stack Overflow, which swamped the site's volunteer-based quali...
Read moreUsers Bypassed ChatGPT's Content Filters with Ease
Nov 30, 2022
Users reported bypassing ChatGPT's content and keyword filters with relative ease using various methods such as prompt injection or creating...
Read moreChinese Accounts Spammed Twitter Feed Allegedly to Obscure News of Protests
Nov 27, 2022
Twitter Feed was flooded by content from Chinese-language accounts which allegedly aimed to manipulate and reduce social media coverage abou...
Read moreBlack Man Wrongfully Arrested by Louisiana Police Due to Face Mismatch
Nov 25, 2022
A black man was wrongfully arrested by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office due to facial recognition system developed by Clearview AI, alt...
Read moreLouisiana Police Wrongfully Arrested Black Man Using False Face Match
Nov 25, 2022
Louisiana police reportedly used a false facial recognition match and secured an arrest warrant for a Black man for thefts he did not commit...
Read moreFalse Arrest of Georgia Man Due to Louisiana Police's Faulty Facial Recognition Technology
Nov 25, 2022
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana relied on facial recognition technology to identify suspects for the alleged theft of lux...
Read moreSudden Braking by Tesla Allegedly on Self-Driving Mode Caused Multi-Car Pileup in Tunnel
Nov 24, 2022
A Tesla driver alleged Full Self Driving (FSD) braking unexpectedly as the cause for an eight-car pileup in San Francisco which led to minor...
Read moreTesla Vehicle Allegedly Running in Self-Driving Mode Causes Multi-Car Pileup in Tunnel
Nov 24, 2022
A Tesla Model S vehicle changes lanes and then abruptly brakes in the far-left lane of the San Francisco Bay Bridge, resulting in an eight-v...
Read moreDeepfake of FTX's Former CEO Posted on Twitter Aiming to Scam FTX Collapse Victims
Nov 22, 2022
A visual and audio deepfake of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was posted on Twitter to scam victims of the exchange's collapse by urging p...
Read moreLensa AI's Produced Unintended Sexually Explicit or Suggestive "Magic Avatars" for Women
Nov 22, 2022
Lensa AI's "Magic Avatars" were reportedly generating sexually explicit and sexualized features disproportionately for women and Asian women...
Read moreStable Diffusion Allegedly Used Artists' Works without Permission for AI Training
Nov 20, 2022
Text-to-image model Stable Diffusion was reportedly using artists' original works without permission for its AI training.
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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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