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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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Incident 54317 Reports
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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Incident 48015 Reports
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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Incident 60615 Reports
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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Incidents Harmed By

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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Incident 5172 Reports
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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Incident 851 Report
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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Incident 5181 Report
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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Incidents involved as Developer

Incident 59744 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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Incident 61643 Reports
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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Incident 3129 Reports
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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Incident 54422 Reports
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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Incidents involved as Deployer

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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Incident 1201 Report
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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Incident 4881 Report
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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