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Alleged Deepfake of Luis Suárez Used to Scam Uruguayans in Fake Investment Scheme

Dec 26, 2024

On December 26, 2024, UTE (Uruguay's public utility company) alerted the public about a deepfake video disseminated on Instagram, Facebook,...

Alleged Fake AI-Generated Christmas Card Featuring Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Children Circulates on Social Media

Dec 26, 2024

An alleged AI-generated Christmas card, featuring images of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, h...

BP New Zealand's License Plate Recognition System Reportedly Misidentified Auckland Driver for Fuel Theft in Whanganui

Dec 25, 2024

BP’s license plate recognition system, a critical component of safe and secure AI practices in the transportation sector, reportedly misiden...

Global Cybercrime Network Storm-2139 Allegedly Exploits AI to Generate Deepfake Content

Dec 19, 2024

A global cybercrime network, Storm-2139, is suspected to have exploited stolen credentials and created custom tools aimed at bypassing AI go...

Romance Scammer 'Alla Morgan' Allegedly Exploits Deepfake Technology to Defraud Victim of £17,000

Dec 19, 2024

A fraudster allegedly exploited AI-generated deepfakes to portray a fictitious individual named 'Alla Morgan', reportedly duping a 77-year-o...

Character.ai Chatbots Allegedly Emulating School Shooters and Their Victims

Dec 17, 2024

Users reportedly created chatbots mimicking school shooters and victims on Character.ai, enabling graphic role-play scenarios. The company p...

Serbian Authorities Allegedly Used AI-Powered Cellebrite Tools to Unlock Journalist’s Phone and Install Spyware

Dec 16, 2024

Accusations have surfaced that Serbian authorities utilized Cellebrite's AI-enhanced forensic tools to gain unauthorized access to journalis...

HTML/Nomani Deepfake Phishing Campaigns Allegedly Use AI-Generated Content to Defraud Social Media Users

Dec 16, 2024

AI-generated deepfakes were reportedly used in the HTML/Nomani phishing campaign, imitating legitimate services and defrauding social media...

AI Voice Cloning of Ari Melber Allegedly Exploited in Scam Targeting Elderly Woman

Dec 16, 2024

A 73-year-old woman named Patricia Taylor was allegedly defrauded by a scammer who exploited AI-generated voice messages resembling MSNBC an...

Matryoshka Campaign Allegedly Uses Deepfakes to Impersonate Academics for Pro-Russian Propaganda

Dec 13, 2024

The Matryoshka disinformation campaign is suspected of employing AI deepfakes to falsely represent academics, spreading pro-Russian propagan...

Reported Deepfake Video of Elon Musk Announcing $20 Million Cryptocurrency Giveaway Circulating on Social Media

Dec 13, 2024

A potentially misleading deepfake video purportedly featuring Elon Musk is being shared on social media platforms. The video falsely promise...

Apple Intelligence Reportedly Notified Users That Luigi Mangione Shot Himself and Benjamin Netanyahu Had Been Arrested

Dec 13, 2024

On January 16, 2025, Apple Intelligence reportedly distributed misleading push notifications to users, claiming that BBC News had reported t...

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.