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Alleged LLMjacking Targets AI Cloud Services with Stolen Credentials

May 6, 2024

Stolen cloud credentials, possibly obtained via the vulnerable Laravel system (CVE-2021-3129), are suspected to have been exploited in a sch...

Purported AI-Generated Deepfake Images of Katy Perry at 2024 Met Gala Circulate Widely

May 6, 2024

Misleading deepfake images, purportedly generated by AI, circulated on social media, causing confusion about Katy Perry's attendance at the...

Google Healthcare AI Model Med‑Gemini Allegedly Produces Non‑Existent 'Basilar Ganglia' Term in Published Output

May 6, 2024

Google’s healthcare AI solution, Med-Gemini, has reportedly made an error in its public launch materials, using the non-existent term 'basil...

Purported Deepfake Facebook Advertisement Reportedly Used Bulgarian Actor and TV Host Mihail Bilalov's Likeness to Market Joint-Pain Product

May 4, 2024

An allegedly manipulated Facebook advertisement misused footage of Bulgarian actor and television host Mihail Bilalov, modifying the audio a...

Purported Deepfake Facebook Advertisement Reportedly Used Bulgarian Actor, Director, and Playwright Kamen Donev's Likeness to Market Joint-Pain Product

May 4, 2024

An advert on Facebook, allegedly AI-manipulated, utilized footage of Bulgarian actor, director, and playwright Kamen Donev. The ad is claime...

Cybercheck Tool Allegedly Provides Questionable Evidence in Murder Trials

May 3, 2024

Global Intelligence's Cybercheck AI tool, a popular choice among law enforcement for tracking suspects via open source data, has been under...

ChatGPT and Perplexity Reportedly Manipulated into Breaking Content Policies in AI Boyfriend Scenarios

Apr 29, 2024

The 'Dan' (Do Anything Now) AI boyfriend trend on TikTok has reportedly led to the manipulation of various AI models, including ChatGPT 3.5,...

Purported ChatGPT Factual Errors Reportedly Led to Filing of Complaint of GDPR Privacy Violation

Apr 29, 2024

The activist organization noyb, led by Max Schrems, has filed a complaint in Europe against OpenAI over alleged GDPR violations. The claim s...

NHTSA Opens New Probe into Tesla’s Autopilot Following More than a Dozen Fatal Accidents

Apr 26, 2024

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has initiated an investigation into Tesla's Autopilot following over a dozen fata...

Meta AI Hallucinates Harassment Allegations Against New York Politicians

Apr 26, 2024

Meta's AI chatbot in Facebook Messenger made false harassment allegations against multiple New York state lawmakers, inventing incidents, in...

Catholic AI Chatbot 'Father Justin' Claimed to Be a Real Priest, Prompting Retraction

Apr 25, 2024

Catholic advocacy group Catholic Answers deployed an AI chatbot named 'Father Justin', falsely claiming to be a real clergy member and offer...

Microsoft Copilot Allegedly Provides Unsafe Medical Advice with High Risk of Severe Harm

Apr 25, 2024

Microsoft Copilot, an AI tool, was found to provide accurate medical information only 54% of the time by European researchers (citation avai...

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.