Meta's AI Ad Platform Reportedly Causes Overspending and Poor Performance
Feb 14, 2024
Meta's automated ad platform "Advantage Plus" caused advertisers to exceed their daily ad budgets. The cost per impressions (CPMs) surged fa...
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Data source & citationDeepfake Audio Falsely Attributes Controversial Remarks to Keir Starmer About the Rochdale Azhar Ali Crisis
Feb 14, 2024
A deepfake audio clip, falsely claiming to be Keir Starmer discussing the Rochdale byelection and Labour's withdrawl of support for Azhar Al...
Read moreAI Romance Apps Reportedly Compromise User Privacy for Data Harvesting
Feb 14, 2024
AI-powered romantic chatbots, marketed for enhancing mental health, are found to exploit user privacy by harvesting sensitive personal infor...
Read moreDeepfake Video Falsely Claims Kyiv's Assassination Plan Against President Macron
Feb 13, 2024
A deepfake video claimed France 24 reported a Kyiv plot to assassinate French President Macron. This fake news was debunked by France 24, wh...
Read moreWhisper Speech-to-Text AI Reportedly Found to Create Violent Hallucinations
Feb 12, 2024
Researchers at Cornell reportedly found that OpenAI's Whisper, a speech-to-text system, can hallucinate violent language and fabricated deta...
Read moreDeepfake of Long-Deceased Suharto Circulating in Run-up to February 2024 Indonesian Elections
Feb 11, 2024
An AI-generated deepfake of Suharto, the deceased Indonesian dictator, was generated and circulated by the Golkar Party ahead of the Februar...
Read moreMany Political Deepfakes Circulating in Run-up to 2024 Pakistani General Elections
Feb 8, 2024
During Pakistan's 2024 general elections, politically motivated AI-generated deepfakes were circulated. These deepfakes falsely portrayed po...
Read moreAlleged Deepfake Audio of Imran Khan Calls for Election Boycott, Misleading Pakistan Voters
Feb 7, 2024
A purported deepfake audio clip, falsely attributed to Imran Khan urging a PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf) election boycott, circulated on so...
Read moreDeepfake CFO Scam Costs Company $25 Million
Feb 2, 2024
A finance employee at a multinational was deceived into transferring $25 million by fraudsters using deepfake technology to impersonate the...
Read moreLondon Metropolitan Police's Facial Recognition Technology Reportedly Misidentified Shaun Thompson as Suspect Leading to Arrest
Feb 1, 2024
Sometime in February 2024, Shaun Thompson is reported to have walked by one of the London Metropolitan Police's facial recognition technolog...
Read moreGOP Pollster Shares AI-Generated Images to Fabricate Appearance of Black Voter Support
Feb 1, 2024
GOP pollster Patrick Ruffini shared AI-generated images depicting Black men supporting the Republican Party just before Black History Month....
Read moreGunshot Detection Technology ShotSpotter (now SoundThinking) Reportedly Only Has 47% Accuracy in Chicago System
Jan 31, 2024
SoundThinking's (formerly ShotSpotter's) system in Chicago, with a reported 47% accuracy rate for detecting actual gunshots, led to potentia...
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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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