OpenAI
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Incident 44325 Report
ChatGPT Abused to Develop Malicious Softwares
2022-12-21
OpenAI's ChatGPT was reportedly abused by cyber criminals including ones with no or low levels of coding or development skills to develop malware, ransomware, and other malicious softwares.
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Scarlett Johansson Alleges OpenAI's Sky Imitates Her Voice Without Licensing
2024-05-20
OpenAI unveiled a voice assistant with a voice resembling Scarlett Johansson's, despite her refusal to license her voice. Johansson claimed the assistant, "Sky," sounded "eerily similar" to her voice, leading her to seek legal action. OpenAI suspended Sky, asserting the voice was from a different actress.
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Users Bypassed ChatGPT's Content Filters with Ease
2022-11-30
Users reported bypassing ChatGPT's content and keyword filters with relative ease using various methods such as prompt injection or creating personas to produce biased associations or generate harmful content.
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Kenyan Data Annotators Allegedly Exposed to Graphic Content for OpenAI's AI
2021-11-01
Sama AI's Kenyan contractors were reportedly asked with excessively low pay to annotate a large volume of disturbing content to improve OpenAI's generative AI systems such as ChatGPT, and whose contract was terminated prior to completion by Sama AI.
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Users Bypassed ChatGPT's Content Filters with Ease
2022-11-30
Users reported bypassing ChatGPT's content and keyword filters with relative ease using various methods such as prompt injection or creating personas to produce biased associations or generate harmful content.
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Bing AI Search Tool Reportedly Declared Threats against Users
2023-02-14
Users such as the person who revealed its built-in initial prompts reported Bing AI-powered search tool for making death threats or declaring them as threats, sometimes as an unintended persona.
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Global Cybercrime Network Storm-2139 Allegedly Exploits AI to Generate Deepfake Content
2024-12-19
A global cybercrime network, Storm-2139, allegedly exploited stolen credentials and developed custom tools to bypass AI safety guardrails. They reportedly generated harmful deepfake content, including nonconsensual intimate images of celebrities, and their software is reported to have disabled content moderation, hijacked AI access, and resold illicit services. Microsoft disrupted the operation and filed a lawsuit in December 2024, later identifying key members of the network in February 2025.
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GPT-2 Able to Recite PII in Training Data
2019-02-14
OpenAI's GPT-2 reportedly memorized and could regurgitate verbatim instances of training data, including personally identifiable information such as names, emails, twitter handles, and phone numbers.
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Incident 54158 Report
ChatGPT Reportedly Produced False Court Case Law Presented by Legal Counsel in Court
2023-05-04
A lawyer in Mata v. Avianca, Inc. used ChatGPT for research. ChatGPT hallucinated court cases, which the lawyer then presented in court. The court determined the cases did not exist.
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American Asylum Seeker John Mark Dougan in Russia Reportedly Spreads Disinformation via AI Tools and Fake News Network
2024-05-29
John Mark Dougan, a former Florida sheriff's deputy granted asylum in Russia, has been implicated in spreading disinformation. Utilizing AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT and DALL-E 3, Dougan created over 160 fake news sites, disseminating false narratives to millions worldwide. His actions align with Russian disinformation strategies targeting Western democracies. See also Incident 734.
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'Pravda' Network, Successor to 'Portal Kombat,' Allegedly Seeding AI Models with Kremlin Disinformation
2022-02-24
A Moscow-based disinformation network, Pravda, allegedly infiltrated AI models by flooding the internet with pro-Kremlin falsehoods. A NewsGuard audit found that 10 major AI chatbots repeated these narratives 33% of the time, citing Pravda sources as legitimate. The tactic, called "LLM grooming," manipulates AI training data to embed Russian propaganda. Pravda is part of Portal Kombat, a larger Russian disinformation network identified by VIGINUM in February 2024, but in operation since February 2022.
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ChatGPT-Assisted University Email Addressing Mass Shooting Denounced by Students
2023-02-16
Vanderbilt University's Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion used ChatGPT to write an email addressing student body about the 2023 Michigan State University shooting, which was condemned as "impersonal" and "lacking empathy".
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