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Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
Incident 293 Report
Image Classification of Battle Tanks
2011-09-20
A potentially apocryphal story in which an image classifier was produced to differentiate types of battle tanks, but the resulting model keyed in on environmental attributes rather than tank attributes
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Incident 293 Report
Image Classification of Battle Tanks
2011-09-20
A potentially apocryphal story in which an image classifier was produced to differentiate types of battle tanks, but the resulting model keyed in on environmental attributes rather than tank attributes
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CISA Acting Director Reportedly Uploaded Sensitive Government Documents to Public ChatGPT Instance
2025-07-15
Madhu Gottumukkala, acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), reportedly uploaded government contracting documents marked "for official use only" into a public version of ChatGPT. The uploads reportedly triggered automated cybersecurity alerts and prompted a Department of Homeland Security review to assess potential exposure of sensitive information.
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