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Chasing the Hallucinations: KPMG's AI-Powered Attempt at "Redefining Excellence"

Incident 1563: KPMG Report Allegedly Included Hallucinated Citations and Inaccurate Agentic AI Case Studies

“Chasing the Hallucinations: KPMG's AI-Powered Attempt at "Redefining Excellence"”Latest Incident Report
gptzero.me2026-06-30

AIID editor's note: Please see the original source for the full report and all of its findings.

Over the past year, a team of GPTZero investigators has used our Hallucination Check tool to uncover hallucinated citations in government reports, academic papers submitted to prestigious machine learning / artificial intelligence conferences like ICLR and NeurIPS*, and research products from tw

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Bucks County Man Charged Following Investigation into Grok AI-Generated Child Pornography

Incident 1562: Pennsylvania Man Allegedly Used Grok to Create and Possess Purportedly AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material

“Bucks County Man Charged Following Investigation into Grok AI-Generated Child Pornography”
buckscounty.gov2026-06-29

On the heels of filing a landmark federal lawsuit against social media and tech giants, Bucks County District Attorney Joe Khan today announced the arrest of a New Britain Borough man facing multiple felony charges for producing and possessing child sexual abuse material he created using artificial intelligence software. 

Harry Tiffany IV, 66, of the 300 block of East Butler Avenue, was charged with felony counts of sexual abuse of children, possession of child pornography, and criminal use of a communication facility. He was arraigned on Tuesday morning by Magisterial District Judge Regina A

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BP, Marathon, 7-Eleven, Walmart sued for allegedly using AI to boost California gas prices

Incident 1559: Kalibrate Fuel Pricing Allegedly Enabled California Gas Station Operators to Coordinate Higher Pump Prices

“BP, Marathon, 7-Eleven, Walmart sued for allegedly using AI to boost California gas prices”
reuters.com2026-06-26

June 22 (Reuters) - Gas station operators ‌including BP (BP.L), opens new tab, Circle K (ATD.TO), opens new tab, Marathon Petroleum (MPC.N), opens new tab, 7-Eleven (3382.T), opens new tab, Walmart (WMT.O), opens new tab and Albertsons (ACI.N), opens new tab were sued on Monday by California drivers who accused them of using artificial intelligence to boost prices at the pump.

According to a proposed class action, the defendants violated California's main antitrust law, the Cartwright Act, by using an AI-based ⁠tool that uses data from competing gas stations to "coordinate high prices and wri

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Sullivan & Cromwell law firm apologizes for AI 'hallucinations' in court filing

Incident 1558: Sullivan & Cromwell Reportedly Filed Emergency Bankruptcy Motion Containing AI-Generated Legal Errors

“Sullivan & Cromwell law firm apologizes for AI 'hallucinations' in court filing”
reuters.com2026-06-26

April 21 (Reuters) - Sullivan & Cromwell, a premier Wall Street law firm, apologized to a federal ‌judge for submitting a court filing with inaccurate citations and other errors generated by artificial intelligence.

In a letter dated April 18, Andrew Dietderich, co-head of the firm's global restructuring group, said the errors included AI "hallucinations" - instances in which AI makes up case ​citations, misquotes the law or generates non-existent legal sources.

The mistakes were caught by law firm Boies ​Schiller Flexner, Dietderich said in the letter to Martin Glenn, chief judge of the U.S

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الحبس سنة مع الإيقاف لشاب بتهمة ابتزاز قريبة له بصور مفبركة بالذكاء الاصطناعي في دمنهور

Incident 1560: Man in Egypt Reportedly Convicted of Using AI-Fabricated Sexual Content to Blackmail Relative

“الحبس سنة مع الإيقاف لشاب بتهمة ابتزاز قريبة له بصور مفبركة بالذكاء الاصطناعي في دمنهور”
elbalad.news2026-06-26

ضت محكمة جنايات دمنهور، الدائرة السابعة، برئاسة المستشار الدكتور سامح عبد الله، وعضوية المستشارين أحمد خضر، وأحمد خليل، ومصطفى رفاعي، وسكرتارية خالد يوسف، بحبس شاب لمدة سنة مع الشغل وإيقاف تنفيذ العقوبة، ومحو كل الصور والرسائل المتعلقة بالجريمة، لإدانته بابتزاز إحدى قريباته بفبركة مقاطع وصور إباحية لها باستخدام تقنيات الذكاء الاصطناعي بمركز دمنهور.

وتعود تفاصيل الواقعة إلى قيام المتهم بإنشاء حسابات وهمية على منصتي فيسبوك وماسينجر، ودمج صور شخصية للمجني عليها على مقاطع خادشة للحياء، ثم إرسالها إليها لتهديدها بنشرها وفضحها بين أفراد أسرتها لإجبارها على إقامة علاقة جنسية معه، إلا أن المجني عليها

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The AI Incident Database is dedicated to indexing the collective history of harms or near harms realized in the real world by the deployment of artificial intelligence systems. Like similar databases in aviation and computer security, the AI Incident Database aims to learn from experience so we can prevent or mitigate bad outcomes.

You are invited to submit incident reports, whereupon submissions will be indexed and made discoverable to the world. Artificial intelligence will only be a benefit to people and society if we collectively record and learn from its failings. (Learn More)

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Notes for the Growing AI Safety Ecosystem: Corporations and Governments

By Sean McGregor

2026-06-23

Executive Summary After many conversations with those taking inspiration from and building on the AI Incident Database, we have notes to fac...

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