AI Incidents

Figma Disables AI Feature After Accusations of Copying Apple’s Weather App

Jul 2, 2024

Figma has temporarily disabled its AI design feature, "Make Design," after accusations of copying Apple’s Weather app. Andy Allen of NotBori...

Scammers Allegedly Use Deepfake Technology to Pose as Leonor, Princess of Asturias, in Fraud Scheme

Jul 1, 2024

Scammers have allegedly been using deepfake technology and fake social media accounts to reportedly impersonate Leonor, Princess of Asturias...

OpenAI's ChatGPT Mac App Stored User Data in Unencrypted Text Files

Jul 1, 2024

OpenAI's ChatGPT macOS app stored user conversations in plain text. If accessed by a malicious actor, these conversations could have been ea...

British Female Politicians Victimized by Deepfake Pornography

Jul 1, 2024

British female politicians, including Angela Rayner, Gillian Keegan, Penny Mordaunt, Priti Patel, Stella Creasy, and Dehenna Davison, have b...

AllHere's Chatbot 'Ed' Fails and Costs Los Angeles Unified School District $6 Million

Jul 1, 2024

The Los Angeles Unified School District invested up to $6 million in developing the AI chatbot "Ed," meant to provide academic and mental he...

Australian Schools Grappling with Significant Spread of Non-Consensual Spread of Deepfake Pornography of Students

Jun 29, 2024

Throughout 2024, schools in Australia dealt with a significant rise and proliferation of non-consensual deepfake pornography of students. Of...

Scammers Allegedly Use Deepfake of Hong Kong Entertainer Andy Lau to Steal NT$2.64 Million from Fan

Jun 27, 2024

Scammers allegedly defrauded a woman in New Taipei City of NT$2.64 million (US$81,116) by impersonating Hong Kong entertainer Andy Lau using...

Cody Enterprise Reporter Resigns After Admitting to AI-Generated Fake Quotes

Jun 26, 2024

A reporter at the Cody Enterprise used AI to generate fake quotes and stories, including fabricating statements from Wyoming’s governor and...

AI Work Assistants Require More Effort Than Expected, CIOs Say

Jun 25, 2024

AI work assistants, such as Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Gemini for Google Workspace, are proving to be more labor-intensive than anticipat...

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Algorithm Wrongly Flags 200,000 for Housing Benefit Fraud

Jun 23, 2024

A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) algorithm wrongly flagged over 200,000 UK housing benefit claims as high risk, resulting in unneces...

AI-Enabled Fraud Schemes Reportedly Increasing Consumer Harm and Challenging Detection

Jun 22, 2024

Scammers are reportedly using AI tools such as language models, voice cloning, and synthetic IDs to create more convincing frauds, leading t...

Senior Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong Allegedly Misrepresented in Two Deepfake Videos on Foreign Relations

Jun 21, 2024

Two deepfake videos falsely depicted Senior Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong commenting on US-China relations and the South China Sea....

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.