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Various generative AI developers

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer

Incident 9962 Report
Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

2020-10-25

Meta and Bloomberg allegedly used Books3, a dataset containing 191,000 pirated books, to train their AI models, including LLaMA and BloombergGPT, without author consent. Lawsuits from authors such as Sarah Silverman and Michael Chabon claim this constitutes copyright infringement. Books3 includes works from major publishers like Penguin Random House and HarperCollins. Meta argues its AI outputs are not "substantially similar" to the original books, but legal challenges continue.

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Incidents involved as Developer

Incident 9947 Report
AI-Enabled Organized Crime Expands Across Europe

2025-03-18

Europol’s EU Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment (EU-SOCTA) 2025 warns that AI is accelerating the growth of organized crime throughout Europe. Criminal networks are leveraging AI for cyber fraud, ransomware, money laundering, and child exploitation, while AI-powered social engineering and automation are making criminal operations more scalable and harder to detect.

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Incident 10375 Report
Microsoft Reportedly Blocks 1.6 Million Bot Signup Attempts Per Hour Amid Global AI-Driven Fraud Surge

2025-04-16

Between April 2024 and April 2025, Microsoft reportedly blocked 1.6 million bot signups per hour and disrupted $4 billion in fraud attempts linked to AI-enhanced scams. The company's Cyber Signals report details how generative AI is being used to fabricate realistic e-commerce sites, job offers, customer service bots, and phishing lures. Fraud actors now automate mass-deceptive campaigns with fake reviews, deepfakes, and cloned brand domains at unprecedented scale and speed.

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Related Entities
Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Organized crime groups

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 994
    7 Reports

    AI-Enabled Organized Crime Expands Across Europe

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General public of the European Union

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 994
    7 Reports

    AI-Enabled Organized Crime Expands Across Europe

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Voice cloning technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 994
    7 Reports

    AI-Enabled Organized Crime Expands Across Europe

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Large language models

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 994
    7 Reports

    AI-Enabled Organized Crime Expands Across Europe

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Deepfake technology apps

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 994
    7 Reports

    AI-Enabled Organized Crime Expands Across Europe

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Meta

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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EleutherAI

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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Bloomberg

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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The Pile

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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Shawn Presser

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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Zadie Smith

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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Writers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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Verso

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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Stephen King

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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Sarah Silverman

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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Richard Kadrey

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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Publishers found in Books3

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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Penguin Random House

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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Oxford University Press

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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Over 170,000 authors found in Books3

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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Michael Pollan

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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Margaret Atwood

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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Macmillan

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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HarperCollins

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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General public

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1037
    5 Reports

    Microsoft Reportedly Blocks 1.6 Million Bot Signup Attempts Per Hour Amid Global AI-Driven Fraud Surge

  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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Creative industries

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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Christopher Golden

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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Authors

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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LLaMA

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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hugging face

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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GPT-J

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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Books3

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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BloombergGPT

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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Bibliotik

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 996
    2 Reports

    Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

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scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1037
    5 Reports

    Microsoft Reportedly Blocks 1.6 Million Bot Signup Attempts Per Hour Amid Global AI-Driven Fraud Surge

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Fraudsters

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1037
    5 Reports

    Microsoft Reportedly Blocks 1.6 Million Bot Signup Attempts Per Hour Amid Global AI-Driven Fraud Surge

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Cyber criminal networks

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1037
    5 Reports

    Microsoft Reportedly Blocks 1.6 Million Bot Signup Attempts Per Hour Amid Global AI-Driven Fraud Surge

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Various deepfake technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1037
    5 Reports

    Microsoft Reportedly Blocks 1.6 Million Bot Signup Attempts Per Hour Amid Global AI-Driven Fraud Surge

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Various voice cloning technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1037
    5 Reports

    Microsoft Reportedly Blocks 1.6 Million Bot Signup Attempts Per Hour Amid Global AI-Driven Fraud Surge

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Consumers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1037
    5 Reports

    Microsoft Reportedly Blocks 1.6 Million Bot Signup Attempts Per Hour Amid Global AI-Driven Fraud Surge

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Enterprises

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1037
    5 Reports

    Microsoft Reportedly Blocks 1.6 Million Bot Signup Attempts Per Hour Amid Global AI-Driven Fraud Surge

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Microsoft

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1037
    5 Reports

    Microsoft Reportedly Blocks 1.6 Million Bot Signup Attempts Per Hour Amid Global AI-Driven Fraud Surge

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Financial institutions

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1037
    5 Reports

    Microsoft Reportedly Blocks 1.6 Million Bot Signup Attempts Per Hour Amid Global AI-Driven Fraud Surge

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Generative AI systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1037
    5 Reports

    Microsoft Reportedly Blocks 1.6 Million Bot Signup Attempts Per Hour Amid Global AI-Driven Fraud Surge

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AI-powered chatbots

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1037
    5 Reports

    Microsoft Reportedly Blocks 1.6 Million Bot Signup Attempts Per Hour Amid Global AI-Driven Fraud Surge

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AI-enhanced phishing frameworks

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1037
    5 Reports

    Microsoft Reportedly Blocks 1.6 Million Bot Signup Attempts Per Hour Amid Global AI-Driven Fraud Surge

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Microsoft Quick Assist

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1037
    5 Reports

    Microsoft Reportedly Blocks 1.6 Million Bot Signup Attempts Per Hour Amid Global AI-Driven Fraud Surge

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E-commerce and job listing platforms

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1037
    5 Reports

    Microsoft Reportedly Blocks 1.6 Million Bot Signup Attempts Per Hour Amid Global AI-Driven Fraud Surge

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Fraud detection and domain protection tools

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1037
    5 Reports

    Microsoft Reportedly Blocks 1.6 Million Bot Signup Attempts Per Hour Amid Global AI-Driven Fraud Surge

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