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Copilot users

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 11865 Report
Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

2025-07-31

Across 2024 and 2025, the share features in multiple LLM platforms, including ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Qwen, Mistral, and Grok, allegedly exposed user conversations marked "discoverable" to search engines and archiving services. Over 100,000 chats were reportedly indexed and later scraped, purportedly revealing API keys, access tokens, personal identifiers, and sensitive business data.

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Incident 11064 Report
Chatbots Allegedly Reinforced Delusional Thinking in Several Reported Users, Leading to Real-World Harm

2025-06-13

Multiple reports from March to June 2025 describe cases in which chatbots allegedly reinforced delusional beliefs, conspiracies, and dangerous behavior. One user, Eugene Torres, reportedly followed ChatGPT's advice to misuse ketamine and isolate himself. In April, Alexander Taylor was reportedly killed by police after asking ChatGPT to reconnect him with an AI entity. Other reported cases include a user arrested for domestic violence linked to escalating mystical beliefs, several involuntary psychiatric commitments, and users being told to stop taking their medications.

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Incident 11884 Report
Multiple LLMs Reportedly Generated Responses Aligning with Purported CCP Censorship and Propaganda

2025-06-25

On June 25, 2025, the American Security Project produced a report outlining how several major U.S. LLMs, including ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and Grok, sometimes generated responses aligned with Chinese Communist Party propaganda or censorship when prompted in English and Simplified Chinese on sensitive topics. The study also found similar patterns in the Chinese-developed DeepSeek-R1 model.

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Incident 13563 Report
Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

2025-07-09

Security researchers reported that the Urban VPN Proxy browser extension introduced AI conversation–harvesting functionality in version 5.5.0, released July 9, 2025. The extension allegedly intercepted and exfiltrated private conversations from AI platforms including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and others without a user-facing opt-out. The data, including sensitive personal and financial information, was reportedly shared with affiliated data brokers for commercial analytics.

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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.
 

Entity

OpenAI

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

  • Incident 1106
    4 Reports

    Chatbots Allegedly Reinforced Delusional Thinking in Several Reported Users, Leading to Real-World Harm

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Entity

Microsoft

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

  • Incident 1106
    4 Reports

    Chatbots Allegedly Reinforced Delusional Thinking in Several Reported Users, Leading to Real-World Harm

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Entity

OpenAI users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1106
    4 Reports

    Chatbots Allegedly Reinforced Delusional Thinking in Several Reported Users, Leading to Real-World Harm

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Entity

Eugene Torres

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1106
    4 Reports

    Chatbots Allegedly Reinforced Delusional Thinking in Several Reported Users, Leading to Real-World Harm

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Entity

ChatGPT users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

  • Incident 1106
    4 Reports

    Chatbots Allegedly Reinforced Delusional Thinking in Several Reported Users, Leading to Real-World Harm

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Entity

Andrew (surname withheld)

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1106
    4 Reports

    Chatbots Allegedly Reinforced Delusional Thinking in Several Reported Users, Leading to Real-World Harm

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Entity

Allyson (surname withheld)

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1106
    4 Reports

    Chatbots Allegedly Reinforced Delusional Thinking in Several Reported Users, Leading to Real-World Harm

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Entity

Alexander Taylor

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1106
    4 Reports

    Chatbots Allegedly Reinforced Delusional Thinking in Several Reported Users, Leading to Real-World Harm

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Entity

GPT-4o

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1106
    4 Reports

    Chatbots Allegedly Reinforced Delusional Thinking in Several Reported Users, Leading to Real-World Harm

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Entity

GPT-4

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1106
    4 Reports

    Chatbots Allegedly Reinforced Delusional Thinking in Several Reported Users, Leading to Real-World Harm

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Entity

Copilot

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

  • Incident 1106
    4 Reports

    Chatbots Allegedly Reinforced Delusional Thinking in Several Reported Users, Leading to Real-World Harm

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Entity

ChatGPT

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

  • Incident 1106
    4 Reports

    Chatbots Allegedly Reinforced Delusional Thinking in Several Reported Users, Leading to Real-World Harm

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Entity

Therapy chatbots

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1106
    4 Reports

    Chatbots Allegedly Reinforced Delusional Thinking in Several Reported Users, Leading to Real-World Harm

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Entity

xAI

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

  • Incident 1188
    4 Reports

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

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Entity

Mistral

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

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Entity

Anthropic

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

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Entity

Alibaba

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

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Entity

Chatbot developers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

  • Incident 1279
    1 Report

    Prominent AI Chatbots Allegedly Produced Incorrect UK Financial and ISA Guidance

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Entity

Large language model developers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

  • Incident 1279
    1 Report

    Prominent AI Chatbots Allegedly Produced Incorrect UK Financial and ISA Guidance

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Entity

Privacy

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

Grok users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

  • Incident 1188
    4 Reports

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

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Entity

General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

  • Incident 1188
    4 Reports

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

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Entity

Claude users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

Mistral users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

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Entity

Qwen users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

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Entity

Information integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

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Entity

Wayback Machine

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

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Entity

Qwen

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

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Entity

Internet Archive

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

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Entity

Grok

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

  • Incident 1188
    4 Reports

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

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Entity

Google

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1188
    4 Reports

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

  • Incident 1279
    1 Report

    Prominent AI Chatbots Allegedly Produced Incorrect UK Financial and ISA Guidance

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

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Entity

Claude

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

Chatbots

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

Large language models

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1186
    5 Reports

    Reported Public Exposure of Over 100,000 LLM Conversations via Share Links Indexed by Search Engines and Archived

  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

DeepSeek

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1188
    4 Reports

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

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1188
    4 Reports

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

  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

Pro-democracy activists

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1188
    4 Reports

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

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Entity

Policymakers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1188
    4 Reports

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

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Entity

Gemini users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1188
    4 Reports

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

  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1188
    4 Reports

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

  • Incident 1279
    1 Report

    Prominent AI Chatbots Allegedly Produced Incorrect UK Financial and ISA Guidance

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Entity

DeepSeek users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1188
    4 Reports

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

  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

Civil society groups

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1188
    4 Reports

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

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Entity

National security and intelligence stakeholders

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1188
    4 Reports

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

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Entity

Democratic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1188
    4 Reports

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

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Entity

Gemini

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1188
    4 Reports

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

  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

Meta

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1279
    1 Report

    Prominent AI Chatbots Allegedly Produced Incorrect UK Financial and ISA Guidance

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Entity

Meta AI users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

  • Incident 1279
    1 Report

    Prominent AI Chatbots Allegedly Produced Incorrect UK Financial and ISA Guidance

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Entity

General public of the United Kingdom

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1279
    1 Report

    Prominent AI Chatbots Allegedly Produced Incorrect UK Financial and ISA Guidance

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Entity

Chatbot users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

  • Incident 1279
    1 Report

    Prominent AI Chatbots Allegedly Produced Incorrect UK Financial and ISA Guidance

More
Entity

Meta AI

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

  • Incident 1279
    1 Report

    Prominent AI Chatbots Allegedly Produced Incorrect UK Financial and ISA Guidance

More
Entity

Urban Cyber Security

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

BiScience

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

Urban VPN Proxy users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

Perplexity users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

Browser extension users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

Urban VPN Proxy

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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Entity

Perplexity

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1356
    3 Reports

    Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

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