ESPN's AI Coverage Overlooks Alex Morgan in Her Final Match Recap
Sep 8, 2024
ESPN's AI-generated recap of Alex Morgan’s final professional soccer match failed to mention her significant retirement moment, instead prov...
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Data source & citationMusic Producer Arrested for Allegedly Using AI-Generated Songs in $10 Million Streaming Scam
Sep 4, 2024
Michael Smith was arrested for allegedly using AI-generated songs and fake streaming accounts to scam over $10 million in royalties from maj...
Read moreAmazon's Alexa Reportedly Shows Political Preference Error in Trump-Harris Presidential Race Queries
Sep 4, 2024
Amazon's Alexa was found to provide politically biased responses when asked about the 2024 presidential candidates. It refused to give reaso...
Read moreClearview AI Faces $33.7 Million Fine for Violating GDPR with Biometric Data Harvesting
Sep 3, 2024
Clearview AI was fined $33.7 million by the Dutch data protection authority for allegedly creating an illegal facial recognition database by...
Read more53% of American and British Businesses Report Attacks by AI-Powered Deepfake Scams in 2024
Sep 3, 2024
According to Medius, Deepfake scams have targeted 53% of businesses in the U.S. and U.K., with 43% falling victim. Using AI to create realis...
Read moreRussian Disinformation Campaign Allegedly Used Fake News Site 'KBSF-San Francisco News' and Deepfake Video to Falsely Accuse Kamala Harris of 2011 Hit-and-Run
Sep 2, 2024
A Russian disinformation campaign allegedly used a fake news site, "KBSF-San Francisco News," and an AI-generated deepfake video to falsely...
Read moreElon Musk Reportedly Shared an AI-Generated Image Depicting Kamala Harris Dressed as a Communist Ruler
Sep 2, 2024
Elon Musk reportedly shared an AI-generated image on X depicting Kamala Harris as a "communist dictator" in response to her post about Donal...
Read moreBias in AI Deepfake Detection Undermines Election Security in Global South
Sep 2, 2024
AI deepfake detection tools are reportedly failing voters in the Global South due to biases in their training data. These tools, which prior...
Read moreSouth Korea Experiences a Surge of Explicit Deepfake Pornography
Aug 28, 2024
At the end of August 2024, South Korean authorities began investigating a significant surge in the creation and dissemination, often via Tel...
Read moreJoint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Soldier Faces Allegations of Using AI to Generate Child Pornography
Aug 23, 2024
Seth Herrera, a U.S. Army soldier at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER), is accused of using artificial intelligence to generate pornogr...
Read moreGenerative AI Allegedly Used to Facilitate $255,000 Real Estate Fraud Scheme
Aug 23, 2024
A real estate scam is reported to have used AI-generated phishing emails to impersonate a title company lawyer, tricking homebuyer Raegan Ba...
Read moreMegalopolis Trailer Included Fake AI-Generated Quotes Attributed to Film Critics
Aug 21, 2024
Lionsgate pulled the trailer for "Megalopolis" after it was discovered to contain fake quotes from well-known film critics, generated by AI....
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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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