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Incidents Harmed By

Incident 7181 Report
OpenAI, Google, and Meta Alleged to Have Overstepped Legal Boundaries for Training AI

2024-04-06

In late 2021, OpenAI and other tech giants like Google and Meta reportedly faced data shortages for training AI models. OpenAI is said to have developed a tool called Whisper to transcribe over one million hours of YouTube videos, potentially violating YouTube’s terms of service. Similarly, Google allegedly transcribed YouTube videos, risking copyright infringements. Meta reportedly explored summarizing copyrighted texts without permission and debated acquiring Simon & Schuster for data.

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Incidents involved as Deployer

Incident 163410 Report
Purportedly AI-Generated Video Reportedly Misled Elderly Malaysian Couple Into Traveling to Nonexistent Cable Car Attraction

2025-06-30

An elderly couple from Kuala Lumpur reportedly drove three hours to Kuak Hulu, Perak, on June 30, 2025, after viewing a purportedly Google Veo 3-generated video depicting a nonexistent cable car attraction called the Kuak Skyride. Published on TikTok by "TV Rakyat," the video featured a synthetic reporter and purported visitors. The couple learned after arriving that the attraction did not exist.

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Incident 16371 Report
Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

2026-07-22

Science communicator and YouTuber Hank Green reportedly included an AI-generated scientific image containing factual and mathematical errors in a YouTube educational video. Green later said he knew the image was AI-generated when he used it and removed it after recognizing problems with the graphic.

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Related Entities
Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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OpenAI

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 718
    1 Report

    OpenAI, Google, and Meta Alleged to Have Overstepped Legal Boundaries for Training AI

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Meta

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 718
    1 Report

    OpenAI, Google, and Meta Alleged to Have Overstepped Legal Boundaries for Training AI

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Entity

Google

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 718
    1 Report

    OpenAI, Google, and Meta Alleged to Have Overstepped Legal Boundaries for Training AI

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1634
    10 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Video Reportedly Misled Elderly Malaysian Couple Into Traveling to Nonexistent Cable Car Attraction

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Entity

YouTube creators

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 718
    1 Report

    OpenAI, Google, and Meta Alleged to Have Overstepped Legal Boundaries for Training AI

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Entity

General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 718
    1 Report

    OpenAI, Google, and Meta Alleged to Have Overstepped Legal Boundaries for Training AI

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Entity

TV Rakyat

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1634
    10 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Video Reportedly Misled Elderly Malaysian Couple Into Traveling to Nonexistent Cable Car Attraction

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Entity

Synthetic media creators

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1634
    10 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Video Reportedly Misled Elderly Malaysian Couple Into Traveling to Nonexistent Cable Car Attraction

  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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Entity

Information manipulation actors in Malaysia

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1634
    10 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Video Reportedly Misled Elderly Malaysian Couple Into Traveling to Nonexistent Cable Car Attraction

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Entity

Information manipulation actors

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1634
    10 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Video Reportedly Misled Elderly Malaysian Couple Into Traveling to Nonexistent Cable Car Attraction

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Entity

Synthetic video generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1634
    10 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Video Reportedly Misled Elderly Malaysian Couple Into Traveling to Nonexistent Cable Car Attraction

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Entity

Synthetic media generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1634
    10 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Video Reportedly Misled Elderly Malaysian Couple Into Traveling to Nonexistent Cable Car Attraction

  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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Entity

Travelers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1634
    10 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Video Reportedly Misled Elderly Malaysian Couple Into Traveling to Nonexistent Cable Car Attraction

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Entity

tourists

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1634
    10 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Video Reportedly Misled Elderly Malaysian Couple Into Traveling to Nonexistent Cable Car Attraction

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Entity

TikTok users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1634
    10 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Video Reportedly Misled Elderly Malaysian Couple Into Traveling to Nonexistent Cable Car Attraction

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Entity

Social media users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1634
    10 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Video Reportedly Misled Elderly Malaysian Couple Into Traveling to Nonexistent Cable Car Attraction

  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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Facebook users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1634
    10 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Video Reportedly Misled Elderly Malaysian Couple Into Traveling to Nonexistent Cable Car Attraction

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Entity

Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1634
    10 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Video Reportedly Misled Elderly Malaysian Couple Into Traveling to Nonexistent Cable Car Attraction

  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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Entity

Elderly individuals in Malaysia

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1634
    10 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Video Reportedly Misled Elderly Malaysian Couple Into Traveling to Nonexistent Cable Car Attraction

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Entity

Elderly individuals

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1634
    10 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Video Reportedly Misled Elderly Malaysian Couple Into Traveling to Nonexistent Cable Car Attraction

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Entity

Consumers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1634
    10 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Video Reportedly Misled Elderly Malaysian Couple Into Traveling to Nonexistent Cable Car Attraction

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Entity

Veo 3

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1634
    10 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Video Reportedly Misled Elderly Malaysian Couple Into Traveling to Nonexistent Cable Car Attraction

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Entity

Veo

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1634
    10 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Video Reportedly Misled Elderly Malaysian Couple Into Traveling to Nonexistent Cable Car Attraction

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Entity

TikTok

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1634
    10 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Video Reportedly Misled Elderly Malaysian Couple Into Traveling to Nonexistent Cable Car Attraction

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Entity

Synthetic video generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1634
    10 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Video Reportedly Misled Elderly Malaysian Couple Into Traveling to Nonexistent Cable Car Attraction

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Entity

Synthetic media generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1634
    10 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Video Reportedly Misled Elderly Malaysian Couple Into Traveling to Nonexistent Cable Car Attraction

  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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Entity

Social media platforms

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1634
    10 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Video Reportedly Misled Elderly Malaysian Couple Into Traveling to Nonexistent Cable Car Attraction

  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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Entity

Facebook

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1634
    10 Reports

    Purportedly AI-Generated Video Reportedly Misled Elderly Malaysian Couple Into Traveling to Nonexistent Cable Car Attraction

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Entity

YouTube content creators

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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Entity

Science communicators

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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Entity

Hank Green

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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Entity

Synthetic image generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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Entity

YouTube users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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Entity

YouTube

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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Entity

Synthetic image generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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