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Alleged Fake Citations Undermine Expert Testimony in Minnesota Deepfake Law Case

Nov 1, 2024

In a recent legal case defending Minnesota's deepfake election misinformation law, Stanford misinformation expert Professor Jeff Hancock's a...

AI-Generated Airline Reviews Allegedly Mislead Consumers and Undermine Trust

Oct 31, 2024

An increase of 189% in AI-generated airline reviews since ChatGPT's release, particularly impacting China Southern Airlines and SouthWest Ai...

Blogger Milagro Gramz Allegedly Promoted AI-Generated Pornographic Deepfake Targeting Megan Thee Stallion

Oct 30, 2024

Blogger Milagro Gramz was found liable for promoting and amplifying an AI-generated deepfake involving rapper Megan Thee Stallion. This inci...

AI Models Reportedly Found to Provide Misinformation on Election Processes in Spanish

Oct 30, 2024

A recent analysis reveals that several AI models offered incorrect information regarding election procedures, with 52% of Spanish responses...

Alaska Education Department Reportedly Published Policy Featuring Erroneous AI-Generated Citations

Oct 28, 2024

In October 2024, a controversy emerged when Alaska’s Education Commissioner Deena Bishop was accused of utilizing generative AI to draft a s...

AI Transcription Tool Whisper Reportedly Inserting Fabricated Content in Medical Transcripts

Oct 26, 2024

OpenAI's AI-powered transcription tool, Whisper, is marketed for its near 'human level robustness and accuracy.' However, concerns have been...

Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown's Voice and Image Misused in AI-Generated Scam

Oct 25, 2024

A scammer abused AI technology by creating a deepfake video, falsely impersonating Salt Lake City's Police Chief Mike Brown. The video, sent...

Character.ai Chatbots Allegedly Misrepresent George Floyd on User-Generated Platform

Oct 24, 2024

Two chatbot representations of George Floyd were generated on Character.ai, leading to misleading claims about his life and death. The chatb...

Purported AI-Generated Content Circulates Widely in Sudan Amid Civil Conflict and Information Vacuum

Oct 23, 2024

Widely circulated deepfakes on Sudanese social media during the ongoing conflict have allegedly spread false claims, impersonated public fig...

NYC Subway AI Weapons Scanners Yield High False Positive Rate and Detect No Guns in Month-Long Pilot Test

Oct 23, 2024

For a month-long pilot test in September 2024, New York City deployed AI-equipped weapons scanners. Although no weapons were detected, the s...

Polish Radio Station Replaces Human Hosts with AI-Generated Presenters to Simulate Interviewing Deceased Poet Wisława Szymborska

Oct 21, 2024

Polish radio station Off Radio Krakow experimented with AI-generated presenters, simulating an interview with the deceased poet Wisława Szym...

AI Detection Tools Allegedly Misidentify Neurodivergent and ESL Students' Work as AI-Generated in Academic Settings

Oct 18, 2024

AI writing detection tools have been accused of incorrectly labeling authentic student work as AI-generated, with a disproportionate impact...

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.