AI Incidents

Proliferation of Deepfakes Disrupting 2024 Lok Sabha Elections

Dec 27, 2023

Digital manipulators in India are using deepfake technology to influence the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. These AI-generated videos and audio c...

Social Media Scammers Used Deepfakes of Taylor Swift and Several Other Celebrities in Fraudulent Le Creuset Cookware Giveaways

Dec 26, 2023

Scammers reportedly made deepfakes of Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Joanna Gaines, Lainey Wilson, Ree Drummond, Oprah, Jennifer Lopez, Trisha...

Child Sexual Abuse Material Taints Image Generators

Dec 20, 2023

The LAION-5B dataset (a commonly used dataset with more than 5 billion image-description pairs) was found by researchers to contain child se...

Rite Aid Facial Recognition Disproportionately Misidentified Minority Shoppers as Shoplifters

Dec 20, 2023

Rite Aid used facial recognition technology from October 2012 to July 2020, allegedly leading to disproportionate misidentifications of wome...

Chevrolet Dealer Chatbot Agrees to Sell Tahoe for $1

Dec 18, 2023

A Chevrolet dealer's AI chatbot, powered by ChatGPT, humorously agreed to sell a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for just $1, following a user's crafted pr...

Manipulated Deepfake Video of Lai Ching-te Endorsing Rivals in Lead-up to January Presidential Elections

Dec 16, 2023

In the lead-up to Taiwan's presidential election in January 2024, a deepfake video circulated showing candidate Lai Ching-te endorsing his r...

Navy Federal Credit Union Faces Allegations of Racial Bias in Mortgage Approvals

Dec 14, 2023

Navy Federal Credit Union, serving military members and veterans, faced allegations of racial bias in its mortgage approval process, which r...

Google Bard Allegedly Generated Fake Legal Citations in Michael Cohen Case

Dec 12, 2023

Michael Cohen, former lawyer for Donald Trump, claims to have used Google Bard, an AI chatbot, to generate legal case citations. These false...

Waymo Software Flaw Leads to Double Collision with Tow Truck

Dec 11, 2023

Two Waymo autonomous vehicles hit the same tow truck under unusual towing conditions due to a software misinterpretation in Phoenix, Arizona...

Two Florida Middle School Students Arrested Under New Law for Allegedly Having Made and Shared Deepfake Nudes of Their Classmates

Dec 6, 2023

Two teenaged boys from Miami, Florida, were arrested for allegedly creating and sharing AI-generated nude images of their classmates. Charge...

Students at a Beverly Hills Middle School Allegedly Created and Shared Deepfake Nudes of Their Classmates

Dec 6, 2023

At Beverly Vista Middle School in Beverly Hills, California, students allegedly used AI to generate fake nude photos with their classmates'...

Underground Market for LLMs Powers Malware and Phishing Scams

Dec 1, 2023

A study by Indiana University researchers uncovered widespread misuse of large language models (LLMs) for cybercrime. Cybercriminals, accord...

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.