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Senior Kerala Congress Leader N. Subrahmanian Reportedly Booked for Sharing Purportedly AI-Generated Defamatory Image of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan

Dec 26, 2025

A senior Indian National Congress leader, N. Subrahmanian, is under investigation for sharing a digitally manipulated image on Facebook, all...

Purported Deepfake Investment Video Reportedly Used in Scam That Defrauded Turkish Couple of 1.5 Million Lira (~$35,000 USD)

Dec 26, 2025

A Turkish couple, Ismail and Hale Kereci, reportedly lost 1.5 million lira (~$35,000 USD) in a deepfake investment scam on Facebook. The sca...

Grok Reportedly Generated and Distributed Nonconsensual Sexualized Images of Adults and Minors in X Replies

Dec 25, 2025

AI model Grok allegedly produced sexually explicit content without consent, generating and distributing nonconsensual images of both adults...

Purportedly AI-Manipulated Image Reported to Falsely Depict Taiwanese Politician Kao Chia-yu Posing With PRC Flag

Dec 25, 2025

Late in December 2025, a manipulated image surfaced online, portraying former Taiwanese legislator Kao Chia-yu seemingly before the PRC five...

Purported Deepfake Endorsements Reportedly Used to Promote Fraudulent Health and Investment Products in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dec 24, 2025

Deepfake videos and images, allegedly featuring Montenegrin MP Vladimir Dobričanin and other public figures, were reportedly used in ads on...

Purported AI-Generated Videos Depicted George Will Reportedly Commenting on Trump and Supreme Court Rulings

Dec 23, 2025

Misleading deepfake videos allegedly created by AI have surfaced online, featuring conservative columnist George Will commenting falsely abo...

School's Suspected AI-Cheating Allegation Precedes Student's Reported Suicide in Greater Noida, India

Dec 23, 2025

A 16-year-old student in Greater Noida, India, tragically died by suicide after being questioned over suspected use of AI tools during a pre...

Reported AI-Generated Deepfake Videos Impersonating Elon Musk and Dragon’s Den Allegedly Used in Cryptocurrency Investment Scam Targeting Canadian Victims

Dec 21, 2025

Canadian investors suffered a combined loss of $2.3 million due to deepfake videos, allegedly generated by AI, impersonating Elon Musk and D...

Waymo Robotaxis Allegedly Contributed to Traffic Gridlock During San Francisco PG&E Power Outage

Dec 20, 2025

A PG&E substation fire in San Francisco on December 20, 2025 caused nearly one-third of the city to lose power. With traffic signals going d...

Purported Deepfake Impersonating Sudha Murty Reportedly Promoted Quantum AI India Investment Scam via Spoofed News Link

Dec 19, 2025

A deepfake video, falsely representing Rajya Sabha MP and Infosys Foundation chairperson Sudha Murty, was circulated on social media. The de...

Google AI-Generated Search Summary Reportedly Falsely Implicated Canadian Musician in Sexual Offenses, Leading to Concert Cancellation

Dec 19, 2025

An AI-generated Google search summary falsely implicated Canadian musician Ashley MacIsaac in sexual offenses, potentially due to mistaken i...

AI-Generated Misrepresentations in Court: The Case of Fletcher v. Experian

Dec 18, 2025

In Fletcher v. Experian Information Solutions, Inc., a Fifth Circuit court found that attorney Heather Hersh utilized generative AI to draft...

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.