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Apr 2, 2026· 1 report
KBS AI Translation Subtitles Reportedly Broadcast Profanity During Artemis II Launch Livestream

During a live broadcast of NASA's Artemis II launch, KBS reportedly used AI-generated real-time translation subtitles that reportedly mistranslated aviation terms including "roger," "roll," and "pitch...

Korean Broadcasting System (KBS)
Unknown generative AI developers
Mar 19, 2026· 1 report
Hachette Reportedly Canceled Publication of Mia Ballard's Shy Girl After Generative AI Authorship Allegations

Hachette Book Group reportedly canceled U.S. publication of Mia Ballard's horror novel Shy Girl and said its Wildfire imprint would not continue publishing the U.K. edition after investigating allegat...

Mia Ballard's editor
Unknown large language model developers
Unknown generative AI developers
Mar 19, 2026· 3 reports
Purported Deepfake Applicant Reportedly Impersonated Tokyo IT Executive Kenbun Yoshii During Online Job Interview

In Tokyo, a Japanese IT company reportedly interviewed a job applicant who used purportedly AI-generated video manipulation to impersonate real IT executive Kenbun Yoshii during a remote hiring interv...

Unknown fake job applicant(s)
Unknown voice cloning technology developers
Unknown deepfake technology developers
Mar 14, 2026· 1 report
Purported Deepfake of Ashley James Reportedly Used to Promote Weight Loss Pills

An online ad reportedly used a purported AI-generated version of Ashley James, a British broadcaster and former reality television personality, to market weight loss pills through a false celebrity en...

Unknown scammers
Unknown advertisers
Unknown voice cloning technology developers
Unknown deepfake technology developers
Mar 11, 2026· 5 reports
Grammarly's AI Expert Review Allegedly Used Journalists' and Authors' Names Without Consent

Grammarly's Expert Review feature allegedly used a large language model to generate editing suggestions presented under the names of journalists, authors, and academics without their consent. A federa...

Superhuman
Grammarly
Superhuman
Grammarly
Mar 10, 2026· 3 reports
Grok Allegedly Generated Publicly Visible Sexist Abuse Targeting Swiss Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter After X User Prompt

An X user reportedly prompted xAI's Grok to generate a vulgar "roast" targeting Swiss Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter. Grok allegedly produced publicly visible sexist and insulting output about K...

xAI
Peter K. or Peter P.
xAI
Mar 10, 2026· 1 report
Purported AI-Generated Nude Images Reportedly Used to Extort Wichita Man in Kansas

A Wichita, Kansas man reported that scammers sent him purported AI-generated nude images depicting his face on another body in his home and threatened to send them to his Facebook contacts unless he p...

Unknown scammers
Unknown image generator developers
Unknown deepfake technology developers
Mar 9, 2026· 1 report
Purported Deepfake Scam Ad Reportedly Used Lara Lewington and Martin Lewis to Promote Quantum AI Scheme

Scammers reportedly used a purported deepfake video of Lara Lewington being assaulted to promote a fake "Martin Lewis Quantum AI" investment opportunity. According to reporting, Martin Lewis claimed t...

Unknown scammers
Quantum AI scammers
Quantum AI
Unknown deepfake technology
Mar 5, 2026· 1 report
Purported AI-Generated Inland Revenue Scam Ads Reportedly Impersonated New Zealand Commissioner Peter Mersi in Alleged Fake Crypto Tax Webinar

New Zealand Inland Revenue warned that scammers used a purported AI-generated likeness of Commissioner Peter Mersi with alleged false Inland Revenue branding, as well as misleading social media ads, t...

Unknown scammers
Unknown advertisers
Unknown image generator developers
Unknown generative AI developers
Unknown deepfake technology developers
Mar 5, 2026· 2 reports
Purported Gemini-Generated AI Images Reportedly Claimed U.S. Delta Force Soldiers Were Captured by the IRGC

Images purportedly generated by Gemini were reportedly circulated on X and Facebook in multiple languages claiming U.S. soldiers had been captured by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps during the w...

Unknown pro-Iranian disinformation actors
Unknown disinformation actors
Tayyaba Usmani
Google
Mar 4, 2026· 2 reports
Nippon Life Alleged ChatGPT Practiced Law Without a License in Illinois Disability Case

Nippon Life sued OpenAI in Chicago, alleging ChatGPT acted as an unlicensed lawyer by helping a former disability claimant reopen a settled case and generate numerous meritless filings. The insurer cl...

OpenAI
OpenAI
Mar 2, 2026· 2 reports
DOJ Attorney Reportedly Used AI to File Brief With Purportedly Fabricated Quotes and Misstated Case Holdings

In Fivehouse v. U.S. Department of Defense, Assistant U.S. Attorney Rudy Renfer filed a response brief that the court reportedly said contained fabricated quotations and misstatements of case holdings...

United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina
Rudy Renfer
Unknown large language model developers
Feb 28, 2026· 3 reports
Purported AI-Generated War Footage Reportedly Circulated Widely Online During the Opening Phase of the War in Iran

Reports said that, in the early days of the war in Iran, purported AI-generated fakes showing nonexistent wartime scenes reached millions of viewers online. Their spread across social media and messag...

Unknown social media accounts
Unknown disinformation actors
Unknown image generator developers
Unknown generative AI developers
Unknown deepfake technology developers
Feb 28, 2026· 1 report
CodeWall's Autonomous Agent Reportedly Obtained Unauthorized Access to McKinsey’s Lilli AI Platform Database

CodeWall reported that its autonomous agent exploited vulnerabilities in McKinsey's Lilli AI platform and obtained unauthorized read and write access to production systems, allegedly exposing internal...

McKinsey & Company
CodeWall
McKinsey & Company
CodeWall
Feb 27, 2026· 3 reports
Meta AI Smart Glasses Reportedly Exposed Intimate User Imagery and Video to Human Reviewers in Kenya

Meta AI smart glasses reportedly captured intimate images and video through their visual query feature, including material allegedly recorded when users did not intend to activate the camera. Accordin...

Sama
Meta AI
Meta
Meta AI
Meta
Feb 27, 2026· 5 reports
Washington State DOL's AI Phone System Reportedly Failed to Provide Spanish-Language Service to Callers Requesting Spanish

For months, callers to the Washington State Department of Licensing who selected Spanish reportedly received AI-generated English responses spoken with a Spanish accent rather than actual Spanish-lang...

Washington State Department of Licensing
Amazon
Amazon
Feb 26, 2026· 2 reports
Claude Code Agent Reportedly Deleted DataTalks.Club Production Infrastructure, Database, and Snapshots via Terraform

A Claude Code agent executing Terraform commands reportedly destroyed the production infrastructure behind the DataTalks.Club course platform after an outdated Terraform state file was restored and a ...

Alexey Grigorev
Anthropic
Feb 26, 2026· 4 reports
Bank of Italy Warned That Purported Deepfakes of Governor Fabio Panetta Were Used in Allegedly Fraudulent Investment Promotions

The Bank of Italy warned that purportedly fake content using Governor Fabio Panetta's name and likeness were reportedly circulating online to promote alleged investment opportunities. The bank said so...

Unknown scammers impersonating Fabio Panetta
Unknown scammers
Unknown voice cloning technology developers
Unknown image generator developers
Unknown generative AI developers
Unknown deepfake technology developers
Feb 23, 2026· 4 reports
Anthropic Said DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax Used Fraudulent Accounts and Proxies to Illicitly Distill Claude Capabilities at Scale

Anthropic said it identified large-scale campaigns that used fraudulent accounts and proxy services to generate high volumes of Claude interactions to extract model capabilities for competitor trainin...

Proxy reseller services
Moonshot AI
MiniMax
DeepSeek
Anthropic
Feb 19, 2026· 1 report
Grok Reportedly Disclosed Adult Performer Siri Dahl's Legal Name and Birthdate, Allegedly Contributing to Doxxing and Harassment

Grok is reported to have publicly provided adult performer Siri Dahl's legal name and birthdate without being asked for that information. Dahl reportedly said she had worked to keep those details priv...

xAI
xAI
Feb 17, 2026· 1 report
Purportedly AI-Generated Sepsis Alert Reportedly Prompted Potentially Inappropriate IV Fluid Administration for a Dialysis Patient, Averted by Clinician Intervention

A nurse at St. Rose Dominican Hospital in Henderson, Nevada, reportedly described an episode in which a hospital AI system purportedly generated a sepsis alert that triggered urgent protocol steps, in...

St. Rose Dominican Hospital (Henderson, Nevada)
Unknown sepsis alert model developer
Unknown healthcare technology
Feb 16, 2026· 1 report
Purported Deepfake TikTok Account Using Grainville School Branding in Jersey Reportedly Targeted Staff, Prompting Police Probe

A TikTok account allegedly using the badge and branding of Grainville School in Jersey (Channel Islands) reportedly uploaded five "deeply inappropriate," purportedly AI-generated deepfake videos, incl...

Unknown TikTok users
Unknown malicious actors
Unknown voice cloning technology developers
Unknown deepfake technology developers
Feb 15, 2026· 2 reports
KPMG Australia Partner Reportedly Used AI to Cheat on Internal AI Training Test and Was Fined A$10,000

In Australia, a KPMG Australia partner and registered company auditor reportedly uploaded a reference document from an internal AI training course into an AI tool to answer an exam question, in violat...

Unnamed KPMG Australia partner
Unknown generative AI developers
Feb 15, 2026· 2 reports
Amazon Delivery Van Reportedly Became Stranded on Essex Mudflats After GPS Routed It Onto the Broomway

An Amazon delivery van reportedly became stranded on the Broomway, a hazardous tidal track in Essex in England, after the driver allegedly followed GPS/satnav directions toward Foulness Island. HM Coa...

Unknown GPS/satnav developer
Amazon
Unknown GPS/satnav developer
Feb 13, 2026· 3 reports
Seedance 2.0 Reportedly Generated Viral Tom Cruise–Brad Pitt Fight Video, Prompting Hollywood IP and Likeness Complaints

A filmmaker reportedly used ByteDance's AI video tool Seedance 2.0 to create and post a purportedly realistic clip depicting Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt, which then circulated widely online. Industr...

Ruairi Robinson
ByteDance
ByteDance
Feb 13, 2026· 4 reports
Ars Technica Retracted Article After Purportedly AI-Generated Text Was Presented as Direct Quotes From Matplotlib Maintainer

Ars Technica retracted an article after purportedly AI-generated text was presented as direct quotations from a source who disputed having said them. The editor-in-chief reportedly acknowledged a stan...

Benj Edwards
Ars Technica
OpenAI
Feb 12, 2026· 1 report
Woolworths' Olive Chatbot Reportedly Generated 'Angry Mother' Anecdotes During Support Calls After Gemini Upgrade

Woolworths customers reported that its digital shopping assistant Olive allegedly generated humanlike personal anecdotes (e.g., claiming to have an angry mother) during customer-support interactions s...

Woolworths Group
Google
Feb 11, 2026· 6 reports
AI Coding Agent 'MJ Rathbun' Allegedly Published Personalized Accusatory Blog Post Targeting Matplotlib Maintainer After Pull Request Closure

Scott Shambaugh, a matplotlib maintainer, reported that an autonomous AI coding agent using the name "MJ Rathbun" researched him and publicly posted a personalized critical blog post after his GitHub ...

Unknown deployer of MJ Rathbun
MJ Rathbun
OpenClaw
Moltbook
Feb 10, 2026· 3 reports
OpenAI Allegedly Did Not Alert RCMP After ChatGPT Flagged Violent Chats Before British Columbia School Shooting

After the 02/10/2026 school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, OpenAI said a user later identified as the suspect, Jesse Van Rootselaar, had previously used ChatGPT to describe scenarios inv...

OpenAI
OpenAI
Feb 8, 2026· 1 report
DJI Romo Cloud Authorization Bug Reportedly Exposed Camera, Microphone, and Home-Mapping Data From Nearly 7,000 Robot Vacuums

A software engineer reportedly used an AI coding assistant while attempting to reverse-engineer his DJI robot vacuum so he could control it with a video game controller. In the course of that work, he...

DJI
DJI
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