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Incident 3520 Reports
Employee Automatically Terminated by Computer Program
2014-10-18
An employee was laid off, allegedly by an artificially intelligent personnel system, and blocked from access to the building and computer systems without their knowledge.
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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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Non-Consensual Deepfake Porn Targeted Female Content Creators
2023-01-30
Unauthorized, non-consensual deepfake pornography showing faces of high-profile female streamers and content creators was published on a subscription-based website, which gained notoriety after a male streamer was caught accessing the site.
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Deepfaked Advertisements Using the Likenesses of Celebrities Such as Tom Hanks and Gayle King Without Their Consent
2023-10-02
Deepfake technology was used to generate video advertisements featuring celebrities. Notable examples include the likeness of Tom Hanks touting a dental plan and another one in which the likeness of Gayle King touts a weight loss product. In each case, the individuals whose likenesses and voices had been deepfaked had not consented to their images and voices being used for the commercials.
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Incident 4128 Reports
All Image Captions Produced are Violent
2018-04-02
MIT Media Lab researchers create AI-powered "psychopath" named Norman by training a model on "dark corners" of Reddit.
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Man Arrested For Sock Theft by False Facial Match Despite Alibi
2018-02-15
A man was arrested for theft of socks from a TJ Maxx store under the guise of an eyewitness ID case, after the local police asked the store's security guard to confirm the facial recognition match produced using surveillance footage, despite him having an alibi at the time of the theft.
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AI attempts to ease fear of robots, blurts out it can’t ‘avoid destroying humankind’
2020-10-09
On September 8, 2020, the Guardian published an op-ed generated by OpenAI’s GPT-3 text generating AI that included threats to destroy humankind. This incident has been downgraded to an issue as it does not meet current ingestion criteria.
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New York Detective Misused Woody Harrelson's Face to Perform Face Recognition Search
2017-04-28
When the facial recognition search for a CVS theft suspect's face returned no useful matches due to the surveillance footage being obscured and highly pixelated, a New York City police detective continued the face search using Woody Harrelson's face allegedly due to his resemblance to the suspect's face, eventually leading to the arrest of an unknown victim.
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Incident 59745 Reports
Students Traumatized as AI-Generated Fake Nudes Are Circulated at New Jersey High School
2023-10-16
AI-powered deepfake nude images of female students circulated among students at Westfield High School in New Jersey, causing significant harm and fear among students and parents.
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Sports Illustrated Is Alleged to Have Used AI to Invent Fake Authors and Their Articles
2023-11-27
Sports Illustrated, managed by The Arena Group, allegedly used AI-generated authors and content, compromising journalistic integrity. Profiles of these fictitious authors, complete with AI-generated headshots, appeared alongside articles, misleading readers. The issue was exposed when inconsistencies in author identities and writing quality were noticed, leading to the removal of this content from the publication's website.
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Driverless Train in Delhi Crashes due to Braking Failure
2017-12-03
A driverless metro train in Delhi, India crashed during a test run due to faulty brakes.
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Deepfakes and AI-generated disinformation in the 2023 presidential elections of Turkey
2023-05-11
Allegations of deepfake technology and AI-generated disinformation have been swirling around the events of the 2023 presidential elections in Turkey.
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Incident 4873 Reports
Deepfake Video Featured Fictitious News Anchors Discussing Venezuela's Economy
2023-02-15
Video featuring fictitious news anchors was created using Synthesia to allegedly spread disinformation about Venezuela's economy on social media and Venezuelan state-run broadcast.
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Philosophy AI Allegedly Used To Generate Mixture of Innocent and Harmful Reddit Posts
2020-09-01
Philosopher AI, a GPT-3-powered controversial text generator, was allegedly used by an anonymous actor on AskReddit subreddit, whose posts featured a mixture of harmless stories, conspiracy theories, and sensitive topic discussions.
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AI Generated Voices Used to Dox Voice Actors
2023-02-10
Twitter users allegedly used ElevenLab's AI voice synthesis system to impersonate and dox voice actors.
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