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AI Meal Planner Suggests Hazardous Chlorine Gas Recipe

Aug 10, 2023

Pak 'n' Save's AI-powered app, Savey Meal-bot, unintentionally suggested hazardous recipes — even one for creating chlorine gas — when users...

AI-Generated Imagery and Multilingual Disinformation in Chinese Campaign Regarding Maui Wildfires

Aug 8, 2023

Chinese operatives exploited AI-generated imagery in a disinformation campaign about wildfires on Maui, propagating false narratives linking...

Alleged False Accusation of AI-Generated Essay by Turnitin

Jul 24, 2023

Allegations arise over an incorrect identification by Turnitin's AI detector, suggesting a student's essay was generated by AI. The student...

Cigna Algorithm PXDX Allegedly Rejected Thousands of Patient Claims En Masse in Breach of California Law

Jul 24, 2023

Cigna's health insurer faces a class-action lawsuit, accused of utilizing the PXDX algorithm to automatically reject over 300,000 patient c...

AI Photo Filter Lightens Skin, Changes Eye Color in Student's 'Professional' Image

Jul 21, 2023

An AI application, while attempting to create a 'professional' image for an MIT student, inadvertently showcased racial bias by lightening h...

Never Back Down Super PAC for Ron DeSantis Uses AI Donald Trump Voice in Attack Ad Against Kim Reynolds

Jul 17, 2023

A pro-Ron DeSantis super PAC employs AI technology to create a voice resembling Donald Trump in an attack ad against Kim Reynolds, Iowa's go...

Shein Accused of AI-Driven Art Theft on Merchandise

Jul 11, 2023

Artists Krista Perry, Larissa Martinez, and Jay Baron have filed a lawsuit against Shein for alleged use of AI in replicating their artwork...

AI-Generated Articles at G/O Media Allegedly Diminishes Reputation of Human Staff

Jul 5, 2023

G/O Media published AI-generated articles that reported errors and quality issues, raising concerns over the credibility and ethics of journ...

Harmful Stereotyping of Non-Cisgendered People via Text-to-Image Systems

Jul 3, 2023

Text-to-image systems like DALL-E have raised concerns due to their alleged bias and offensive output when generating images based on non-ci...

Grant Reviewers Fed Applications into Generative AI to Produce Reports, Allegedly Breaching Confidentiality

Jun 30, 2023

Australian government grant peer reviewers reportedly used generative AI, such as ChatGPT, to produce assessment reports. This practice, all...

Bankrate's Resumption of AI-Generated Content Allegedly Continuing to Produce Inaccurate and Misleading Information

Jun 30, 2023

Bankrate, a Red Ventures-owned platform, resumed AI-generated articles claiming thorough human fact-checking. However, new content is allege...

Amazon Rife with Many Allegedly AI-Generated Books of Suspect Quality

Jun 28, 2023

Amazon's Kindle Unlimited young adult romance bestseller list experienced disruption due to allegedly AI-generated books with questionable q...

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.