AI Incidents

Microsoft-Powered New York City Chatbot Advises Illegal Practices

Mar 29, 2024

New York City's chatbot, launched under Mayor Eric Adams's plan to assist businesses, has been reportedly providing dangerously inaccurate l...

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

Mar 28, 2024

Scammers used AI tools from HeyGen and ElevenLabs to create deepfake videos of influencers Michel Janse, Olga Loiek, Shadé Zahrai, and Carri...

ISIS Utilizes AI for Propaganda Videos in News Harvest Program

Mar 26, 2024

ISIS supporters have created an AI-generated media program called News Harvest to disseminate propaganda videos. The program produces near-w...

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

Mar 26, 2024

The FBI has arrested Steven Anderegg of Holmen, Wisconsin for having allegedly used Stable Diffusion to generate about 13,000 sexually expli...

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

Mar 26, 2024

Sydney-based startup Leonardo AI's text-to-image generator was alleged to have been exploited to create nonconsensual sexual images of celeb...

Alleged Deepfake Disinformation Broadcast by Russian State TV Blames Ukraine for Moscow Attack

Mar 23, 2024

Russian state media is reported to have broadcast deepfaked videos of Ukrainian officials, notably fabricating a video of Secretary of the N...

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

Mar 22, 2024

The Arizona Agenda produced a deepfake video of Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake giving a testimonial about the publication with the se...

Investigation Reports Unauthorized Deepfake Pornography Harms Thousands of Celebrities

Mar 21, 2024

A Channel 4 News investigation alleges that nearly 4,000 celebrities globally, including 255 British figures, were victims of deepfake porno...

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

Mar 14, 2024

22 students at Richmond-Burton Community High School in Illinois were targeted in the creation of deepfake nudes. One of the students, Stevi...

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

Mar 14, 2024

The Jalisco New Generation Cartel is reportedly using AI to expand its financial fraud and human trafficking operations, coercing individual...

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

Mar 14, 2024

AI-driven election disinformation is escalating globally, leveraging easy-to-use generative AI tools to create convincing deepfakes that mis...

Microsoft Copilot Designer Reportedly Generated Inappropriate AI Images

Mar 6, 2024

A Microsoft engineer reported that Copilot Designer, an AI image generator, creates content depicting sex, violence, bias, and more. Despite...

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.

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