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Border Patrol Agent Allegedly Claimed Facial Recognition Identified Minneapolis ICE Observer and Global Entry Was Reportedly Revoked Three Days Later

Jan 10, 2026

On 01/10/2026, near Minneapolis, MN, legal observer Nicole Cleland claimed a CBP Border Patrol agent used facial recognition to identify her...

Purported AI-Generated Doctor Deepfakes Reportedly Used Guy's and St Thomas' Branding to Market Weight Loss Patches

Jan 9, 2026

The Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust has issued a warning about deepfake videos circulating on social media platforms like Facebook...

Purported AI Voice Clone Allegedly Narrated Shaun Rein's 'The Split' in Unauthorized YouTube 'Podcast' Videos

Jan 9, 2026

Author Shaun Rein accused an unidentified party of using an allegedly AI-cloned version of his voice to narrate excerpts from his book 'The...

Purported Deepfake Reportedly Impersonated Consumer Adviser Clark Howard to Promote Auto-Insurance Quote Site

Jan 9, 2026

An alleged deepfake video purported to be generated by AI, depicting consumer advisor Clark Howard endorsing an auto-insurance quote tool ci...

X Users Reportedly Prompted Grok to Sexualize Images of Renée Good After Her Killing in Minneapolis

Jan 7, 2026

After the unfortunate death of Renée Good in Minneapolis on 01/07/2026, users reportedly manipulated xAI's Grok to modify post-shooting imag...

Grok Reportedly Generated False 'Unmasked' Images of ICE Agent, Purportedly Triggering Online Misidentification and Harassment in Minneapolis

Jan 7, 2026

After the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis by an ICE officer, users on X reportedly requested Grok to generate 'unmasked'...

Purportedly AI-Cloned Voice Allegedly Used to Defraud Play School Owner of ₹97,500 (~$1.080 USD) in Indore, India

Jan 6, 2026

A play school owner in Indore, India was allegedly defrauded of approximately $1,080 USD after a fraudster impersonated the victim's cousin...

Reported AI Impersonations of Pastors Used in Online Donation and Influence Scams

Jan 5, 2026

Religious leaders worldwide have reported synthetic video and audio forgeries of pastors, including Father Mike Schmitz, used to solicit don...

Purported Deepfake Videos Reportedly Impersonated Yanis Varoufakis on YouTube and Social Media

Jan 5, 2026

In late 2025 and early 2026, reported deepfake videos mimicking Greek economist and politician Yanis Varoufakis surfaced on YouTube and vari...

Purportedly AI-Generated Images and Videos Reportedly Spread Misinformation About Nicolás Maduro's Capture on X

Jan 3, 2026

Post-January 2026 U.S. raid and arrest of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, allegedly AI-manufactured images and videos proliferated across...

National Weather Service Reportedly Published AI-Generated Forecast Map With Fabricated Idaho Town Names

Jan 3, 2026

The U.S. National Weather Service office reportedly published a wind forecast map for Camas Prairie, Idaho containing falsified and misspell...

Purported Deepfake Impersonating Elon Musk Allegedly Defrauded Elderly U.S. Woman of $50,000 via Gift Card–to-Crypto Scam

Jan 3, 2026

An elderly U.S. woman was deceived by scammers employing deepfake technology and AI-generated messages, purportedly from Elon Musk. The scam...

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.