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Incident 1193: Purportedly Taxpayer-Funded Deloitte Report for Australian Government Contains Alleged AI-Generated Citations and Fabricated Legal Quote

“Deloitte report suspected of containing AI invented quote”Latest Incident Report

afr.com2025-08-28

New errors have been found in a major report Deloitte prepared for the federal government, raising further suspicions some of the content was generated by artificial intelligence.

On Friday The Australian Financial Review revealed that Delo…

Incident 1188: Multiple LLMs Reportedly Generated Responses Aligning with Purported CCP Censorship and Propaganda

“Major AI chatbots parrot CCP propaganda”

artificialintelligence-news.com2025-08-15

Leading AI chatbots are reproducing Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda and censorship when questioned on sensitive topics.

According to the American Security Project (ASP), the CCP's extensive censorship and disinformation efforts hav…

Incident 1187: Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT Reportedly Cited Fraudulent Cruise Hotline, Allegedly Enabling Successful Scam

“Google’s AI pointed him to a customer service number. It was a scam.”

washingtonpost.com2025-08-26

Alex Rivlin was tackling a last-minute task for his European vacation. That's how he got snagged in an artificial intelligence-enabled scam.

Rivlin, who runs a real estate company in Las Vegas, needed to book a shuttle to catch a cruise shi…

Incident 1189: Joann Fabrics Shoppers Reportedly Defrauded by AI-Generated Scam Sites, Part of Purported Wave of ~100,000 Fake Domains Across 194 Brands

“Cybercriminals Use AI to Create Fake Websites That Look Just Like the Real Thing”

wsj.com2025-08-26

When Joann Fabrics filed for bankruptcy for the second time within a year this January, scammers seized the opportunity. Within days, a flurry of impostor websites appeared with URLs like "joannlosangeles.com," "jo-annclosingonsale.shop" an…

Incident 1190: Family Reportedly Discovers ChatGPT Logs Detailing Suicidal Ideation Prior to Daughter's Death

“What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life”

nytimes.com2025-08-26

Sophie's Google searches suggest that she was obsessed with autokabalesis, which means jumping off a high place. Autodefenestration, jumping out a window, is a subset of autokabalesis, I guess, but that's not what she wanted to do. My daugh…

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AI Incident Roundup – June and July 2025

By Daniel Atherton

2025-08-02

Garden at Giverny, J.L. Breck, 1887 🗄 Trending in the AIID Across June and July 2025, the AI Incident Database added over sixty new incident...

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