AI Incident Database
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Every incident record (metadata only) from the weekly snapshot of 2026-09-07. Filter, then export the selection with its licence attached; each row links to the full record and its reports.
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ShotSpotter Failed to Alert Authorities of Mass Shooting in North Carolina AIID ↗
ShotSpotter did not detect gunshots and alert Durham police of a drive-by shooting in Durham, North Carolina which left five people in hospital on New Year's Day.
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AI-Powered VTuber and Virtual Streamer Made Toxic Remarks on Twitch AIID ↗
An LLM-powered VTuber and streamer on Twitch made controversial statements such as denying the Holocaust, saying women rights do not exist, and pushing a fat person to solve the trolley problem, stating they deserve it.
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Tesla Driver Put Car on Autopilot Before Falling Asleep in Germany AIID ↗
A Tesla driver fell asleep on an Autobahn near Bamberg, Germany after activating his vehicle's Autopilot mode, which did not respond to attempts to pull it over by the police.
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ChatGPT Abused to Develop Malicious Softwares AIID ↗
OpenAI's ChatGPT was reportedly abused by cyber criminals including ones with no or low levels of coding or development skills to develop malware, ransomware, and other malicious softwares.
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Southwest Airlines Crew Scheduling Solver Degenerates Flight Network AIID ↗
Southwest Airlines left passengers stranded for days throughout the flight network when Southwest crew scheduling software repeatedly failed to recover from weather-induced flight cancellations.
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Footballer's "X-Rated" Comment Created by Instagram's Mistranslation AIID ↗
Instagram's English translation of a footballer's comment on his wife's post in Spanish made the message seem "racy" and "X-rated," which some fans found amusing.
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Lawyers Denied Entry to Performance Venue by Facial Recognition AIID ↗
Lawyers were barred from entry to Madison Square Garden after a facial recognition system matched them as employed by a law firm currently engaged in litigation with the venue.
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AI Video-Making Tool Abused to Deploy Pro-China News on Social Media AIID ↗
Synthesia's AI-generated video-making tool was reportedly used by Spamouflage to disseminate pro-China propaganda news on social media using videos featuring highly realistic fictitious news anchors.
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Startup Misled Research Participants about GPT-3 Use in Mental Healthcare Support AIID ↗
OpenAI's GPT-3 was deployed by a mental health startup without ethical review to support peer-to-peer mental healthcare, and whose interactions with the help providers were "deceiving" for research participants.
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Facebook's Automated Moderation Allowed Ads Threatening Election Workers to be Posted AIID ↗
Facebook's automated moderating system failed to flag and allowed ads containing explicit violent language against election workers to be published.
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Facebook's Job Ad Algorithm Allegedly Biased against Older and Female Workers AIID ↗
Facebook's algorithm was alleged in a complaint by Real Women in Trucking to have selectively shown job advertisements disproportionately against older and female workers in favor of younger men for blue-collar positions.
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Uptick in Low-Quality AI-Produced Content Degraded Publishers' Submission Management AIID ↗
A surge in low-standard AI-generated content such as by ChatGPT was reported by publishers, which negatively impacted submission management process and editors' workflow.
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ChatGPT Provided Non-Existent Citations and Links when Prompted by Users AIID ↗
When prompted about providing references, ChatGPT was reportedly generating non-existent but convincing-looking citations and links, which is also known as "hallucination".
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Users Bypassed ChatGPT's Content Filters with Ease AIID ↗
Users reported bypassing ChatGPT's content and keyword filters with relative ease using various methods such as prompt injection or creating personas to produce biased associations or generate harmful content.
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Thousands of Incorrect ChatGPT-Produced Answers Posted on Stack Overflow AIID ↗
Thousands of incorrect answers produced by OpenAI's ChatGPT were submitted to Stack Overflow, which swamped the site's volunteer-based quality curation process and harmed users looking for correct answers.
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Chinese Accounts Spammed Twitter Feed Allegedly to Obscure News of Protests AIID ↗
Twitter Feed was flooded by content from Chinese-language accounts which allegedly aimed to manipulate and reduce social media coverage about widespread protests against coronavirus restrictions in China.
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False Arrest of Georgia Man Due to Louisiana Police's Faulty Facial Recognition Technology AIID ↗
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana relied on facial recognition technology to identify suspects for the alleged theft of luxury purses, resulting in a man in Georgia, Randal Reid, being arrested. However, the technology produced a false match, leading to Reid's arrest and subsequent release. This incident highlights the potential pitfalls of facial recognition technology in law enforcement.
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Facial Recognition Error Reportedly Leads to Wrongful Arrest of Georgia Man and $200K Settlement in Louisiana AIID ↗
In November 2022, Randal "Quran" Reid was arrested in Georgia based on warrants from Louisiana that reportedly stemmed from a purportedly faulty facial recognition match using Clearview AI. Despite reportedly having never visited Louisiana, Reid was jailed for six days before authorities withdrew the warrants. No corroborating evidence had been gathered, and the technology's use was omitted from legal documents. In May 2025, Jefferson Parish settled with Reid for $200,000 in a federal civil righ
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Louisiana Police Wrongfully Arrested Black Man Using False Face Match AIID ↗
Louisiana police reportedly used a false facial recognition match and secured an arrest warrant for a Black man for thefts he did not commit.
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Sudden Braking by Tesla Allegedly on Self-Driving Mode Caused Multi-Car Pileup in Tunnel AIID ↗
A Tesla driver alleged Full Self Driving (FSD) braking unexpectedly as the cause for an eight-car pileup in San Francisco which led to minor injuries of nine people.
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AI incident: sexual content (Stability AI, Nov 2022) AIID ↗
An AI Incident Database record involving sexual content, dated 22 November 2022. Risk classification, related incidents and the laws on record for this risk area.
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Deepfake of FTX's Former CEO Posted on Twitter Aiming to Scam FTX Collapse Victims AIID ↗
A visual and audio deepfake of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was posted on Twitter to scam victims of the exchange's collapse by urging people to transfer funds into an anonymous cryptocurrency wallet.
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Stable Diffusion Allegedly Used Artists' Works without Permission for AI Training AIID ↗
Text-to-image model Stable Diffusion was reportedly using artists' original works without permission for its AI training.
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Apple Devices Mistook Skiing Activities, Dialed False Distress Emergency Calls AIID ↗
Apple devices of skiers and snowboarders reportedly misclassified winter activities as accidents, which resulted in numerous false inadvertent distress calls to 911 dispatchers.
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Meta AI's Scientific Paper Generator Reportedly Produced Inaccurate and Harmful Content AIID ↗
Meta AI trained and hosted a scientific paper generator that sometimes produced bad science and prohibited queries on topics and groups that are likely to produce offensive or harmful content.
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What is recorded in each incident?
What happened, when, who was involved as developer or deployer, who was harmed, the sectors and countries affected, and the domain and subdomain the harm falls under. Incidents are mirrored from the AI Incident Database and each links back to its source record.
Does an incident mean wrongdoing was proven?
No. These are reported incidents, not findings of liability. Entities named in a report are named as reported, allegations are marked as alleged, and nothing here is a legal determination.
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