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Microsoft-Powered New York City Chatbot Advises Illegal Practices

Mar 29, 2024

The Microsoft-powered chatbot launched under Mayor Eric Adams's plan to aid businesses in New York City has been reportedly dispensing quest...

Scammers Using Deepfakes of Women's Faces and Voices for False and Offensive Advertisements

Mar 28, 2024

Scammers abused deepfake technology from HeyGen and ElevenLabs, creating deceptive videos featuring influencers Michel Janse, Olga Loiek, Sh...

Leonardo AI's Platform Alleged to Have Been Used for Creating Nonconsensual Celebrity Deepfakes

Mar 26, 2024

A Sydney-based startup, Leonardo AI, is under scrutiny as its text-to-image generator allegedly was exploited to generate nonconsensual sexu...

Holmen, Wisconsin Man Allegedly Used Stable Diffusion to Create and Then Share Sexually Explicit Images Depicting Minors

Mar 26, 2024

The FBI has taken Steven Anderegg of Holmen, Wisconsin into custody for allegedly utilizing Stable Diffusion to produce approximately 13,000...

ISIS Utilizes AI for Propaganda Videos in News Harvest Program

Mar 26, 2024

ISIS supporters developed an AI-driven media program, News Harvest, to disseminate propaganda videos. The weekly broadcasts feature AI-gener...

Purported Deepfake Disinformation Aired on Russian State TV Allegedly Linking Ukraine to Moscow Attack

Mar 23, 2024

Russian state television reportedly broadcast a deepfake video, purporting to show senior Ukrainian security officials falsely admitting inv...

The Arizona Agenda Produced a Deepfake of Kari Lake Advocating for the Publication Without Her Consent

Mar 22, 2024

Deepfakes pose significant risks in the digital age, particularly during elections. This case study highlights an incident where The Arizona...

Investigation Reports Unauthorized Deepfake Pornography Harms Thousands of Celebrities

Mar 21, 2024

A recent Channel 4 News investigation has revealed the alarming issue of deepfake pornography, with nearly 4,000 celebrities worldwide, incl...

Alleged Deepfake Video Depicts Former President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta Announcing 2027 Presidential Bid

Mar 18, 2024

A viral TikTok video, likely manipulated by AI, shows former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta announcing an alleged 2027 presidential run. Di...

22 Students at Richmond-Burton Community High School in Illinois Targeted by Deepfake Nudes

Mar 14, 2024

An incident involving the creation of deepfake nudes targeted 22 students at Richmond-Burton Community High School in Illinois. The victim,...

Manipulated Media via AI Disinformation and Deepfakes in 2024 Elections Erode Trust Across More Than 50 Countries

Mar 14, 2024

The misuse of generative AI in election disinformation is growing worldwide, facilitated by user-friendly deepfake tools that have lowered t...

Cartels Reportedly Using AI to Expand Operations into Financial Fraud and Human Trafficking

Mar 14, 2024

The Jalisco New Generation Cartel is reportedly integrating AI into its illicit activities, deceiving individuals with false job offers to e...

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.