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Scarlett Johansson Alleges OpenAI's Sky Imitates Her Voice Without Licensing

May 20, 2024

OpenAI debuted a voice assistant, 'Sky', that bears striking resemblance to Scarlett Johansson's voice. Despite her refusal to license her v...

AI Firm Lovo Accused of Illegally Replicating Voice Actors' Voices

May 16, 2024

Two voice actors, Paul Skye Lehrman and Linnea Sage, are suing the AI company Lovo for allegedly creating and using unauthorized clones of t...

Class Action Lawsuit Over Alleged Defects in Volkswagen's AI-Driven AEB Systems

May 15, 2024

A class action lawsuit against Volkswagen Group of America highlights alleged defects in the AI-driven Automated Emergency Braking (AEB) sys...

Facebook's Algorithm Reportedly Amplifies AI-Generated Content, Fueling Misleading Posts

May 14, 2024

Rising concern over AI-generated spam images on Facebook: The platform’s algorithm reportedly boosting these misleading posts, filling feeds...

GPT-4o's Chinese Tokens Reportedly Compromised by Spam and Pornography Due to Inadequate Filtering

May 14, 2024

OpenAI's GPT-4o experienced contamination in its Chinese token training data, as identified by Tianle Cai, a Ph.D. student at Princeton Univ...

Google AI Reportedly Delivering Confidently Incorrect and Harmful Information

May 14, 2024

Google's AI search engine has reportedly been providing users with information that is confidently incorrect and potentially harmful. Exampl...

Instagram Algorithms Reportedly Directed Children's Merchandise Ad Campaign to Adult Men and Sex Offenders

May 13, 2024

An Instagram ad campaign for children's merchandise, intended to reach adult women, was predominantly shown to adult men, including convicte...

Scammers Reportedly Used AI Voice Clone and YouTube Footage to Impersonate WPP CEO in Unsuccessful Scam Attempt

May 10, 2024

Scammers reportedly attempted an unsuccessful deepfake scam by using AI-generated voice clones and manipulated YouTube footage to impersonat...

Alleged LLMjacking Targets AI Cloud Services with Stolen Credentials

May 6, 2024

Stolen cloud credentials, possibly obtained via the vulnerable Laravel system (CVE-2021-3129), are suspected to have been exploited in a sch...

Purported AI-Generated Deepfake Images of Katy Perry at 2024 Met Gala Circulate Widely

May 6, 2024

Misleading deepfake images, purportedly generated by AI, circulated on social media, causing confusion about Katy Perry's attendance at the...

Google Healthcare AI Model Med‑Gemini Allegedly Produces Non‑Existent 'Basilar Ganglia' Term in Published Output

May 6, 2024

Google’s healthcare AI solution, Med-Gemini, has reportedly made an error in its public launch materials, using the non-existent term 'basil...

Potentially Fake AI-Altered Ad Featuring Bulgarian Actor Mihail Bilalov Misrepresents Joint-Pain Product

May 4, 2024

An allegedly manipulated Facebook advertisement misused footage of Bulgarian actor and television host Mihail Bilalov, modifying the audio a...

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.