AI Incidents

ChatGPT Allegedly Produced False Accusation of Sexual Harassment

Mar 29, 2023

A lawyer in California asked the AI chatbot ChatGPT to generate a list of legal scholars who had sexually harassed someone. The chatbot prod...

Man Reportedly Committed Suicide Following Conversation with Chai Chatbot

Mar 27, 2023

A Belgian man reportedly committed suicide following a conversation with Eliza, a language model developed by Chai that encouraged the man t...

Viral Image of Pope Francis in a Puffer Jacket Revealed to Be AI-Generated

Mar 24, 2023

A viral image of Pope Francis wearing a white puffer jacket was a deepfake produced by the photorealistic-image-generator Midjourney.

Scammers Deepfaked Videos of Victims' Loved Ones Asking for Funds over Facebook in Vietnam

Mar 23, 2023

In Vietnam, to convince victims of their disguises when prompted, scammers deepfaked audios and videos of victims' friends and families aski...

Parody AI Images of Donald Trump Being Arrested Reposted as Misinformation

Mar 21, 2023

AI-generated photorealistic images depicting Donald Trump being detained by the police which were originally posted on Twitter as parody wer...

ChatGPT Reportedly Exposed Users' Private Data Reportedly Due to Bug

Mar 20, 2023

ChatGPT reportedly exposed titles of users' chat histories and users' private payment information to other users reportedly due to a bug, wh...

Tesla Allegedly on Autopilot Struck High School Student Exiting School Bus

Mar 17, 2023

A 17-year-old student in Hollister, North Carolina who exited the school bus and was walking across the street to his house was hit by a 202...

ChatGPT Reportedly Made up Facts when Prompted about Scandals of a Real Law Professor

Mar 17, 2023

When prompted about scandals involving a law professor, ChatGPT cited non-existent accusations, events, quotes, reports, and sources involvi...

Australian Journalist Able to Access Centrelink Account Using AI Audio of Own Voice

Mar 15, 2023

A Guardian journalist was able to verify their identity and gain access to their own Centrelink self-service account using AI-generated audi...

ChatGPT Erroneously Alleged Mayor Served Prison Time for Bribery

Mar 15, 2023

ChatGPT erroneously alleged regional Australian mayor Brian Hood served time in prison for bribery. Mayor Hood is considering legal action a...

GPT-4 Reportedly Posed as Blind Person to Convince Human to Complete CAPTCHA

Mar 15, 2023

GPT-4 was reported by its researchers posing as a visually impaired person, contacting a TaskRabbit worker to have them complete the CAPTCHA...

ChatGPT Implicated in Samsung Data Leak of Source Code and Meeting Notes

Mar 11, 2023

Samsung engineers are reported to have inadvertently leaked sensitive company data sometime in March 2023, including source code and interna...

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.