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Incident 10182 Report
OpenAI's 4o Model Allegedly Used to Generate Fake Receipts and Prescriptions
2025-03-31
OpenAI's new image generator, 4o, was reportedly used to produce realistic fraudulent documents, including fake restaurant receipts, prescriptions for controlled substances, and potentially other identity or financial documents. Users demonstrated how the model could be prompted to bypass safety restrictions to be misused for expense fraud, medical forgery, and other various forms of document falsification.
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NYPD Facial Recognition System Allegedly Produced Erroneous Match That Reportedly Resulted in Wrongful Detention of Trevis Williams
2025-04-21
The NYPD's facial recognition system allegedly misidentified Trevis Williams as a suspect in a Union Square indecent exposure case. Despite reportedly notable physical differences and exculpatory phone data, Williams was arrested, jailed for more than two days, and charged. The case was later dismissed.
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Incident 13052 Report
UK Facial Recognition System Reportedly Exhibits Higher False Positive Rates for Black and Asian Subjects
2025-12-05
UK government testing of police facial recognition technology reportedly found significantly higher false positive identification rates for Black and Asian individuals compared with white subjects, with particularly elevated error rates for Black women. The findings reportedly emerged from analysis of retrospective searches of the police national database and were disclosed by the Home Office amid plans for expanded national deployment.
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