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AI Incidents

Thousands of Incorrect ChatGPT-Produced Answers Posted on Stack Overflow

Nov 30, 2022

Thousands of incorrect answers produced by OpenAI's ChatGPT were submitted to Stack Overflow, which swamped the site's volunteer-based quali...

Chinese Accounts Spammed Twitter Feed Allegedly to Obscure News of Protests

Nov 27, 2022

Twitter Feed was flooded by content from Chinese-language accounts which allegedly aimed to manipulate and reduce social media coverage abou...

False Arrest of Georgia Man Due to Louisiana Police's Faulty Facial Recognition Technology

Nov 25, 2022

The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana relied on facial recognition technology to identify suspects for the alleged theft of lux...

Facial Recognition Error Reportedly Leads to Wrongful Arrest of Georgia Man and $200K Settlement in Louisiana

Nov 25, 2022

In November 2022, Randal "Quran" Reid was arrested in Georgia based on warrants from Louisiana that reportedly stemmed from a purportedly fa...

Louisiana Police Wrongfully Arrested Black Man Using False Face Match

Nov 25, 2022

Louisiana police reportedly used a false facial recognition match and secured an arrest warrant for a Black man for thefts he did not commit...

Tesla Vehicle Allegedly Running in Self-Driving Mode Causes Multi-Car Pileup in Tunnel

Nov 24, 2022

A Tesla Model S vehicle changes lanes and then abruptly brakes in the far-left lane of the San Francisco Bay Bridge, resulting in an eight-v...

Sudden Braking by Tesla Allegedly on Self-Driving Mode Caused Multi-Car Pileup in Tunnel

Nov 24, 2022

A Tesla driver alleged Full Self Driving (FSD) braking unexpectedly as the cause for an eight-car pileup in San Francisco which led to minor...

Lensa AI's Produced Unintended Sexually Explicit or Suggestive "Magic Avatars" for Women

Nov 22, 2022

Lensa AI's "Magic Avatars" were reportedly generating sexually explicit and sexualized features disproportionately for women and Asian women...

Deepfake of FTX's Former CEO Posted on Twitter Aiming to Scam FTX Collapse Victims

Nov 22, 2022

A visual and audio deepfake of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was posted on Twitter to scam victims of the exchange's collapse by urging p...

Stable Diffusion Allegedly Used Artists' Works without Permission for AI Training

Nov 20, 2022

Text-to-image model Stable Diffusion was reportedly using artists' original works without permission for its AI training.

Apple Devices Mistook Skiing Activities, Dialed False Distress Emergency Calls

Nov 15, 2022

Apple devices of skiers and snowboarders reportedly misclassified winter activities as accidents, which resulted in numerous false inadverte...

Meta AI's Scientific Paper Generator Reportedly Produced Inaccurate and Harmful Content

Nov 15, 2022

Meta AI trained and hosted a scientific paper generator that sometimes produced bad science and prohibited queries on topics and groups that...

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.