Facial Recognition Misidentifies Pregnant Woman Leading to False Arrest in Detroit
Feb 16, 2023
Porcha Woodruff was arrested and subsequently had charges dropped due to an unreliable facial recognition match. Despite being visibly pregn...
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Data source & citationChatGPT-Assisted University Email Addressing Mass Shooting Denounced by Students
Feb 16, 2023
Vanderbilt University's Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion used ChatGPT to write an email addressing student body about the 2023 Mich...
Read moreDeepfake Video Featured Fictitious News Anchors Discussing Venezuela's Economy
Feb 15, 2023
Video featuring fictitious news anchors was created using Synthesia to allegedly spread disinformation about Venezuela's economy on social m...
Read moreBing AI Search Tool Reportedly Declared Threats against Users
Feb 14, 2023
Users such as the person who revealed its built-in initial prompts reported Bing AI-powered search tool for making death threats or declarin...
Read moreBing Chat Tentatively Hallucinated in Extended Conversations with Users
Feb 14, 2023
Early testers reported Bing Chat, in extended conversations with users, having tendencies to make up facts and emulate emotions through an u...
Read moreAI Voices Abused by Telegram User to Make Swat Calls as Paid Service
Feb 12, 2023
Telegram channel Torswats offered paid service for and posted own recordings of false threats calls featuring AI-generated voices to direct...
Read moreMicrosoft's Bing Failed to Fetch Movie Showtimes Results Due to Date Confusion
Feb 12, 2023
When prompted about showtimes for movies released in 2023, Microsoft's Bing AI failed to provide the search results due to its confusion abo...
Read moreHigh Schoolers Posted Deepfaked Video Featuring Principal Making Violent Racist Threats
Feb 12, 2023
Three Carmel High School students posted on TikTok a video featuring a nearby middle school's principal making aggressive racist remarks and...
Read morePurported Deepfake TikTok Video Reportedly Featured Joe Rogan Endorsing Supplement Brand
Feb 12, 2023
A purported deepfake video featuring podcast host Joe Rogan reportedly advertising to his listeners about a "libido-boosting" supplement was...
Read moreOnline Scammers Tricked People into Sending Money Using AI Images of Earthquake in Turkey
Feb 10, 2023
AI-generated images depicting earthquakes and rescues were posted on social media platforms by scammers who tricked people into sending fund...
Read moreAI Generated Voices Used to Dox Voice Actors
Feb 10, 2023
Twitter users allegedly used ElevenLab's AI voice synthesis system to impersonate and dox voice actors.
Read moreBing Chat's Initial Prompts Revealed by Early Testers Through Prompt Injection
Feb 8, 2023
Early testers of Bing Chat successfully used prompt injection to reveal its built-in initial instructions, which contains a list of statemen...
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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.
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