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Incident 628 Reports
TayBot
2016-03-24
Microsoft's Tay, an artificially intelligent chatbot, was released on March 23, 2016 and removed within 24 hours due to multiple racist, sexist, and anit-semitic tweets generated by the bot.
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Deepfake of Explosion Near US Military Administration Building Reportedly Causes Stock Dip
2023-05-22
An apparent deepfake image posted by a false Bloomberg news account to Twitter depicted an explosion near the pentagon office complex near Washington DC.
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Parody AI Images of Donald Trump Being Arrested Reposted as Misinformation
2023-03-21
AI-generated photorealistic images depicting Donald Trump being detained by the police which were originally posted on Twitter as parody were unintentionally shared across social media platforms as factual news, lacking the intended context.
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Twitter’s Image Cropping Tool Allegedly Showed Gender and Racial Bias
2020-09-18
Twitter's photo cropping algorithm was revealed by researchers to favor white and women faces in photos containing multiple faces, prompting the company to stop its use on mobile platform.
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