Donald Trump's Presidential Campaign Released Deepfakes Attacking Ron DeSantis
May 24, 2023
Former President Donald Trump released two AI-generated videos using deepfaked voices to mock Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The first video...
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Data source & citationOpera's GPT-Based AI Reportedly Accused War Photographers of War Crimes
May 24, 2023
When prompted about "photographers accused of committing war crimes," Opera's GPT-based chatbot Aria provided a list of photographers who ta...
Read moreApparent Failure to Accurately Label Primates in Image Recognition Software Due to Alleged Fear of Racial Bias
May 22, 2023
Eight years after Google Photos mislabeled images of Black individuals as "gorillas," image recognition software by Google, Apple, Amazon, a...
Read moreFTC Targets Edmodo for Unlawful Use of Children’s Data and Delegating Compliance to Schools
May 22, 2023
Edmodo, an education technology provider, violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Rule (COPPA Rule) by collecting and using ch...
Read morePurported AI-Generated Image of Explosion Near Pentagon Reportedly Triggers Brief Market Dip and Public Confusion
May 22, 2023
A Twitter/X account allegedly impersonating Bloomberg reportedly posted an image falsely showing an explosion near the Pentagon. Analysts re...
Read moreGoogle Results for Johannes Vermeer Featured AI Version of His Artwork as Top Result
May 21, 2023
Google's search engine featured an AI-generated hyperrealistic version of the painting "Girl With a Pearl Earring" as the highlighted result...
Read moreIllinois Residents File Class Action Lawsuit Against Facial Recognition Technology Companies for Allegedly Violating BIPA
May 18, 2023
A class action lawsuit was filed against several facial recognition technology companies for allegedly violating the Illinois Biometric Info...
Read moreTesla Failed to Yield to Detected Pedestrian on Crosswalk, Reportedly Violated Traffic Law
May 15, 2023
A Tesla on FSD Beta 11.4.1 was shown on video not yielding to a pedestrian detected by the car, reportedly violating the state law sign whic...
Read moreTexas A&M Professor Misused ChatGPT to Detect AI Text Generation in Student Submissions
May 15, 2023
A Texas A&M-Commerce professor reportedly informed his class of his misuse of ChatGPT to detect whether student submissions had been generat...
Read moreAustralian Terrorism Prediction Tool Disparately Impacts Persons with Autism
May 12, 2023
An independent report found that the Vera-2R tool, designed to predict the risk of future terrorist activities, considered autism as a risk...
Read moreAlleged Use of Purportedly AI-Generated and Manipulated Media to Misrepresent Candidates and Disrupt Turkey's 2023 Presidential Election
May 11, 2023
During Turkey's 2023 presidential election, reportedly manipulated and allegedly AI-generated videos, audio, and images were used to smear c...
Read moreChatGPT Reportedly Produced False Court Case Law Presented by Legal Counsel in Court
May 4, 2023
A lawyer in Mata v. Avianca, Inc. used ChatGPT for research. ChatGPT hallucinated court cases, which the lawyer then presented in court. The...
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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.
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