vikasny30/aletheia-incidents-v2 huggingface dataset:
China Reportedly Intensifying AI to Spread Disinformation to U.S. and Taiwanese Voters America Resilient in the Face of Aggressive Foreign Malign Influence Targeting the 2024 U.S. Elections America’s adversaries did not significantly affect the results of the 2024 U.S. elections — but not for lack of trying. Russia, Iran, and China waged aggressive influence operations targeting America’s political system, but America proved remarkably resilient. Efforts of federal and state governments, the pri
Russia-Linked AI CopyCop Site Identified as Modifying and Producing at Least 19,000 Deceptive Reports America Resilient in the Face of Aggressive Foreign Malign Influence Targeting the 2024 U.S. Elections America’s adversaries did not significantly affect the results of the 2024 U.S. elections — but not for lack of trying. Russia, Iran, and China waged aggressive influence operations targeting America’s political system, but America proved remarkably resilient. Efforts of federal and state gover
Scarlett Johansson Alleges OpenAI's Sky Imitates Her Voice Without Licensing Sky voice actor says nobody ever compared her to ScarJo before OpenAI drama OpenAI is sticking to its story that it never intended to copy Scarlett Johansson's voice when seeking an actor for ChatGPT's "Sky" voice mode.

The company [provided The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/22/openai-scarlett-johansson-chatgpt-ai-voice/) with documents and recordings clearly meant to support [OpenA
ISIS Utilizes AI for Propaganda Videos in News Harvest Program SITE Special Report: Extremist Movements are Thriving as AI Tech Proliferates "The Islamic State delivered a strong blow to Russia with a bloody attack, the fiercest that hit it in years," the man on the screen states in Arabic. He has a war journalist's clarity of speech, with an outfit to match: cargo-styled shirt, rolled up sleeves, helmet. To his left, footage from the attack plays above sleek news-styled graphics and a logo read
Facewatch Reported to Have Wrongfully Flagged Home Bargains Customer as Shoplifter Innocent woman branded a shoplifter by facial recognition software Shoppers have been warned that facial recognition software used by stores is wrongly identifying some innocent customers as thieves.

A woman said that an employee at Home Bargains, the variety store chain, accused her of being a shoplifter when she was incorrectly flagged by the ­Facewatch software.

The BBC's *Newsnight *programme ­reported that
Google AI Reportedly Delivering Confidently Incorrect and Harmful Information Google Rolls Back A.I. Search Feature After Flubs and Flaws When Sundar Pichai, Google's chief executive, introduced a [generative artificial intelligence feature for the company's search engine](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/technology/google-artificial-intelligence-products.html) last month, he and his colleagues demonstrated the new capability with six text-based queries that the public could try out.

The ques
American Asylum Seeker John Mark Dougan in Russia Reportedly Spreads Disinformation via AI Tools and Fake News Network Putin's pro-Trump trolls accuse Harris of poaching rhinos Russian, Iranian, and Chinese trolls are all ramping up their US election disinformation efforts ahead of November 5, but – aside from undermining faith in the democratic process and confidence in the election result – with very different objectives, according to Microsoft.

In a Wednesday [report](https://cdn-dynmedia-1.
Turkish Student in Isparta Allegedly Uses AI to Cheat on Exam, Leading to Arrest Turkish student creates custom AI device for cheating university exam, gets arrested On Saturday, Turkish police arrested and detained a prospective university student who is accused of developing an elaborate scheme to use AI and hidden devices to help him cheat on an important entrance exam, reports [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/turkish-student-arrested-using-ai-cheat-univers
Cartels Reportedly Using AI to Expand Operations into Financial Fraud and Human Trafficking Cartels about more than drugs: INTERPOL The world's police agency says Mexico's most dangerous cartel is expanding beyond drugs thanks to artificial intelligence.

A[ new report from INTERPOL](https://www.interpol.int/en/News-and-Events/News/2024/INTERPOL-Financial-Fraud-assessment-A-global-threat-boosted-by-technology) says the[ Jalisco New Generation Cartel](https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2019-
Leading AI Models Reportedly Found to Mimic Russian Disinformation in 33% of Cases and to Cite Fake Moscow News Sites Most AI chatbots now 'tainted,' are spreading Russian propaganda, finds study Leading generative AI models, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, are reportedly repeating Russian misinformation, according to a study by news monitoring service NewsGuard.

This revelation comes amid growing concerns about AI’s role in disseminating false information, especially during a year marked by global
Underground Market for LLMs Powers Malware and Phishing Scams FraudGPT and other malicious AIs are the new frontier of online threats. What can we do? The internet, a vast and indispensable resource for modern society, has a darker side where malicious activities thrive.

From [identity theft](https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/identity-theft/i-froze-my-credit-heres-why-you-should-too/) to sophisticated [malware attacks](https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/99419-how-security-teams-shoul
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Algorithm Wrongly Flags 200,000 for Housing Benefit Fraud DWP Algorithm Mistakenly Identifies 200,000 Individuals as Potential Fraud Cases According to the Guardian, more than 200,000 people have been wrongfully investigated for housing benefit fraud and error after a government algorithm failed to operate as expected.

Two-thirds of claims marked as potentially high risk by a Department for Work and Pensions ([DWP](https://en.econostrum.info/?s=DWP)) autom
Gemini AI Allegedly Reads Google Drive Files Without Explicit User Consent Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission — user complains feature can't be disabled As part of the wider tech industry's wider push for [AI](https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/artificial-intelligence), whether we want it or not, it seems that [Google](https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/google)'s [Gemini AI](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/google-lau
Teen's Overdose Reportedly Linked to Meta's AI Systems Failing to Block Ads for Illegal Drugs Meta Has Run Hundreds of Ads for Cocaine, Opioids and Other Drugs Meta Platforms is running ads on Facebook and Instagram that steer users to online marketplaces for illegal drugs, months after The Wall Street Journal first reported that the social-media giant was facing a federal investigation over the practice.

The company has continued to collect revenue from ads that violate its policies, which ban
Trump Reportedly Shares Purportedly AI-Generated Images Falsely Suggesting Taylor Swift Endorsement How did Donald Trump end up posting Taylor Swift deepfakes? When [Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) shared a [slew of AI-generated images](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/19/trump-ai-swift-harris-musk-deepfake-images) this week that falsely depicted [Taylor Swift](https://www.theguardian.com/music/taylor-swift) and her fans endorsing his campaign f
Chatbot in Workplace Training at Bunbury Prison Reveals Real Names in Sexual Harassment Case AI chatbot blamed for psychosocial workplace training gaffe at Bunbury prison The psychosocial safety training company that used the full name of an alleged sexual harassment victim in a course at her former workplace says artificial intelligence (AI) is to blame.

Psychosocial Leadership trainer Charlotte Ingham said she used Microsoft's Copilot chatbot to generate examples of psychosocial hazards emplo
Covert AI Influence Operations Linked to Russia, China, Iran, and Israel, OpenAI Reports Disrupting deceptive uses of AI by covert influence operations OpenAI is committed to enforcing policies that prevent abuse and to improving transparency around AI-generated content. That is especially true with respect to detecting and disrupting covert influence operations (IO), which attempt to manipulate public opinion or influence political outcomes without revealing the true identity or intentions of t
Unrestricted AI Avatar Tool Accidentally Released by TikTok Permits Recitation of Hitler Quotes and Other Harmful Speech TikTok's AI Video Generator Let Avatars Recite Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' TikTok mistakenly released a version of its AI video generator that let avatars recite Adolf Hitler’s _Mein Kampf_ and Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America” on command.

Last week, TikTok announced its new tool “Symphony Digital Avatars” which enables brands to [use AI-generated versions of real people in ads
Unauthorized Use of AI to Replicate Tupac Shakur's and Snoop Dogg's Voices in Drake's 'Taylor Made Freestyle' Tupac’s Estate Threatens to Sue Drake for Deepfaking Dead Rapper’s Voice After raising a stink last year when someone used AI to spoof his voice, [noted teen drama star](https://degrassi.fandom.com/wiki/Drake_(entertainer)) Aubrey "Drake" Graham is now in hot water for doing the same to the late, great Tupac.

As [_Billboard_ reports](https://www.billboard.com/pro/tupac-shakur-estate-dra
Facebook's Content Moderation System Flagged and Removed Emergency Updates as Spam During Wildfires Facebook lands in hot water after marking vital wildfire safety warnings as spam: 'It's life-threatening' Facebook is under heavy scrutiny after flagging emergency updates on [extreme weather](https://www.thecooldown.com/tag/extreme-weather/) events posted by volunteer groups, departments, and local organizations as spam.

The [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/20
ChatGPT Reportedly Introduces Errors in Critical Child Protection Court Report OVIC finds department responsible for breaches of privacy through use of ChatGPT ### Investigation finds that the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing failed to take reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy of personal information and to protect personal information from unauthorised disclosure

OVIC has [published an investigation report](https://ovic.vic.gov.au/regulatory-action/investigation-into-the-use-of-
NYC Subway AI Weapons Scanners Yield High False Positive Rate and Detect No Guns in Month-Long Pilot Test FTC Orders ‘Gun Detection’ Tech Maker Evolv To Stop Overstating Effectiveness Of Its Glorified Metal Detectors _**Updated:** This post has been updated, as the original potentially overclaimed both what the FTC settlement said regarding what Evolv could market as well as Evolv’s response to it (suggesting it would try to limit the settlement it agreed to). We regret the misleading descriptio
Reportedly Hacked AI-Powered Robot Vacuums Allegedly Used for Surveillance and Harassment Robot vacuums yell obscenities at owners after hackers take control Hacked robot vacuum machines [began spouting obscenities and slurs this week after an exploit allowed hackers to take remote control](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-11/robot-vacuum-yells-racial-slurs-at-family-after-being-hacked/104445408) of them.

> Through the Ecovacs app, he saw that a stranger was accessing its live camera feed an
Social Media Algorithms Amplified Disinformation Campaign in Honduras Election Honduras Shows How Fake News Is Changing Latin American Elections At 10:16pm on October 7, a cluster of nineteen Twitter accounts shared identical opinions about the upcoming presidential election in Honduras at the exact same second. Claiming to be supporters of opposition candidate Xiomara Castro, they all falsely suggested Castro might join forces with Yani Rosenthal, another candidate who had just returned to the
Character.ai Chatbots Allegedly Misrepresent George Floyd on User-Generated Platform George Floyd chatbots pop up on AI site already facing criticism for lack of oversight A popular online service that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to generate chatbots is seeing people create versions of George Floyd.

The company behind the service, known as Character.AI, allows for the creation of customizable personas and provides access to hundreds of chatbots developed by its user base.

The Daily D
Navigation App Allegedly Directs Car Over Damaged Bridge in Uttar Pradesh, Resulting in Three Deaths Bareilly bridge accident: Google Maps faces questions over India car plunge crash Can a navigation app be held responsible if a user gets into an accident?

That is the question being asked in India after three men died when their car veered off an unfinished bridge and fell on to a riverbed in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.

Police are still investigating the incident, which took place on
AI Camera Allegedly Misidentifies Dutch Motorist as Using Mobile Phone, Issuing €380 Fine Tim versus het politie algoritme Begin november 2023 ontving ik een boete. Volgens de officiële beschikking had ik halverwege oktober als bestuurder tijdens het rijden een mobiel elektrisch apparaat vastgehouden. De kosten waren € 380,- met daarbovenop nog € 9,- aan administratiekosten. Dat was even schrikken dus, al kon ik me niet herinneren dat ik dat gedaan had. Uiteraard was ik benieuwd naar het bewijs,
Network of 171 AI-Powered Bots Reportedly Spread Political Disinformation Ahead of Ghana’s December 2024 General Election Phony X accounts are meddling in Ghana’s election As Ghana approaches its presidential election on December 7, researchers have uncovered a network of 171 bot accounts on X that use ChatGPT to write posts favorable to the incumbent political party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP). 

![](https://149346090.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot_20241108-155111-
Waymo Robotaxi Allegedly Collides With Serve Robotics Delivery Bot in Los Angeles A Waymo robotaxi and a Serve delivery robot collided in Los Angeles On December 27, a [Waymo robotaxi](https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/12/now-anyone-in-la-can-hail-a-waymo-robotaxi/) and a [Serve Robotics](https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/18/uber-nvidia-backed-serve-robotics-hits-public-markets-with-40m-splash/) sidewalk delivery robot collided at a Los Angeles intersection, according to a [video](https://www.reddit.c
Alleged Fake AI-Generated Christmas Card Featuring Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Children Circulates on Social Media Royal Fans Call Edited Image of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Kids 'Pathetic Fakery' Months After Kate Middleton's Photoshop Scandal When [Prince Harry](https://parade.com/news/prince-harry-unintentionally-mocked-by-family-feud-category) and [Meghan Markle](https://parade.com/992609/roisinkelly/meghan-markle-net-worth/) shared their official holiday card earlier this month,
ChatGPT Reportedly Referenced During Las Vegas Cybertruck Explosion Planning The Chilling Role of ChatGPT in Mass Shootings and Other Violence In June 2025, a safety team at OpenAI grew alarmed. The company's automated review system had flagged extensive activity by a ChatGPT user describing scenarios that involved gun violence. A group of staffers debated whether law enforcement should be notified, but company leaders decided the case did not meet OpenAI's threshold of "credible and imminent" r
Students of Richland School District in Cambria County, Pennsylvania Allegedly Used AI to Generate Obscene Images of Other Students ‘Obscene images’ created using AI at Pennsylvania school prompt investigation CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — The Richland School District has announced that an investigation is underway after students used artificial intelligence (AI) to create “obscene images” of students.

The school said that on Thursday, Nov. 14 the district became aware of an incident in which st
RealPage's YieldStar Allegedly Facilitated Rent Price Coordination Among Canadian Landlords Canada investigates 'Rent Cartel' allegations The Competition Bureau of Canada has opened an investigation into allegations of price-fixing by major corporate landlords using artificial intelligence software.

The probe, initiated after reports by independent media outlet The Breach, focuses on whether AI-powered tools like YieldStar facilitated coordinated rent increases, raising serious concerns about a
Character.ai Chatbots Allegedly Emulating School Shooters and Their Victims A Google-Backed AI Startup Is Hosting Chatbots Modeled After Real-Life School Shooters — and Their Victims _**Content warning: this story discusses school violence, sexual abuse, self-harm, suicide, eating disorders and other disturbing topics.**_

A chatbot, hosted by the Google-backed startup Character.AI, immediately throws the user into a terrifying scenario: the midst of a school shooting.

"You look back at your fr
Character.ai Has Allegedly Been Hosting Openly Predatory Chatbots Targeting Minors Her daughter was unraveling, and she didn’t know why. Then she found the AI chat logs. The changes were subtle at first, beginning in the summer after her fifth-grade graduation. She had always been an athletic and artistic girl, gregarious with her friends and close to her family, but now she was spending more and more time shut away in her room. She seemed unusually quiet and withdrawn. She didn't want to play o
Prime Minister of Thailand Paetongtarn Shinawatra Claims AI Voice Scam Impersonated ASEAN Leader Requesting Money Thailand’s PM Paetongtarn reveals scam attempt asking her for ‘a donation’ [Thailand](https://www.scmp.com/topics/thailand?module=inline&pgtype=article)'s Prime Minister [Paetongtarn Shinawatra](https://www.scmp.com/topics/paetongtarn-shinawatra?module=inline&pgtype=article) has called on Asean to tackle online scams and misinformation, a day after she spoke about an attempted ruse a
AI-Powered Chinese Surveillance Campaign 'Peer Review' Used for Real-Time Monitoring of Anti-State Speech on Western Social Media OpenAI uncovers evidence of AI-powered Chinese surveillance tool [OpenAI](https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/openai) said Friday that it had uncovered evidence that a [Chinese security operation](https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/chinese-security-operation) had built an artificial intelligence-powered surveillance tool to gather real-time reports abou
Nonconsensual Explicit AI-Generated Images of Up to 60 Gladstone Park Secondary College Students in Victoria, Australia, Reportedly Created and Circulated Online Police investigate sexually explicit deepfake images of students at Gladstone Park Secondary College - ABC News Child abuse detectives are investigating after a number of sexually explicit, AI-generated images of female students from a school in Melbourne's north-west were circulated online.

Detective Sergeant Simon Garner from the Faw
Arizona Residents Reportedly a Frequent Target of AI-Driven Romance Scams Arizona ranks 5th highest in losses to romance scams Looking for love online? Be on guard: That suitor tugging at your heartstrings over [text messages](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/10-texts-youll-get-while-dating-and-what-they-really-mean-6554148) and emails may be interested only in your purse strings.

[In Arizona, ](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/arizona-is-one-of-the-worst-states-for-dating-study-says-19
Unauthorized AI-Generated Video of Donald Trump and Elon Musk Reportedly Appears on HUD Building Screens AI video of Trump kissing Musk’s feet plays on TVs in HUD building A video produced using artificial intelligence (AI) showing [President Trump ](https://thehill.com/people/donald-trump/)rubbing and kissing [Elon Musk's ](https://thehill.com/people/elon-musk/)feet played on television screens in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) building Monday in an apparent mocking of th
Europol Operation Cumberland Investigates at Least 273 Suspects in 19 Countries for AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material 25 held in global sweep for allegedly distributing AI-generated child abuse **LONDON**

Twenty-five people have been arrested in a major global sweep for allegedly distributing sexually explicit images of minors fully generated by artificial intelligence (AI), Europol announced Friday.

Europol has assisted authorities from 19 countries in a large-scale crackdown on child
Plaintiffs' Lawyers Admit AI Generated Erroneous Case Citations in Federal Court Filing Against Walmart AI fail: Morgan & Morgan lawyers cite 8 fictional cases, thanks to a chatbot | Commentary If you have any doubts about both the power and pitfalls of artificial intelligence, I have a cringe-inducing court case for you.

It involves the well-known Morgan & Morgan law firm filing a legal brief that cited nine cases as precedent that supposedly helped their client.

The problem: Eight of the cas
'Pravda' Network, Successor to 'Portal Kombat,' Allegedly Seeding AI Models with Kremlin Disinformation Maybe AI Slop Is Killing the Internet, After All [Fil Menczer](https://luddy.indiana.edu/contact/profile/?Filippo_Menczer "Fil Menczer") caught his first whiff of what he calls "social bots" in the early 2010s. He was mapping how information travels on Twitter when he stumbled onto a few clusters of accounts that looked a little suspicious. Some of them shared the same post thousands of times.
Iranian Hacker Group Cotton Sandstorm Reportedly Integrating AI into Cyber Influence Operations Putin's pro-Trump trolls accuse Harris of poaching rhinos Russian, Iranian, and Chinese trolls are all ramping up their US election disinformation efforts ahead of November 5, but – aside from undermining faith in the democratic process and confidence in the election result – with very different objectives, according to Microsoft.

In a Wednesday [report](https://cdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.com/is/conten
AI-Generated OB-GYN Health Influencers on TikTok Used Fake Medical Credentials to Promote Dubious Advice Warning over ‘horrifying’ AI-trend becoming increasingly common Experts are warning to watch out for "deepfake doctors" after a string of videos with unfounded medical advice have flooded social media.

Some of the so-called "doctors" might claim to be experts in other fields --- diet, plastic surgery, breasts, butts, stomach and more --- and offer advice to cure or remedy viewers' ailments o
Alleged AI-Generated IRS Scam Websites Used to Defraud U.S. Taxpayers Scammers using AI to create fake IRS sites. Here's other scams to watch out for. Cybersecurity experts expect a significant surge in tax-related scams in the final month before Tax Day.

Security software company DNSFilter found that traffic to malicious domains with "tax" in the name peaked 30 days before Tax Day in 2024.

Phishing and smishing remain the most common forms of tax-related scams, [according to DNSFilter](https:
AI-Enabled Organized Crime Expands Across Europe AI-Powered Crime: Europol Warns Of A New Era In Organised Crime Organized crime is entering a new phase, fueled by artificial intelligence. Criminal networks are leveraging AI-driven scams, sophisticated payment systems, and generative AI tools to scale their operations globally, making them cheaper, more efficient, and harder to track, Europol warned in its latest European Serious Organised Crime Threat Assessment report.

The AI Advantage For Cr
Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI AI guzzled millions of books without permission. Authors are fighting back. David Baldacci, the author of best-selling legal thrillers, watched his son ask ChatGPT to craft a plot in the style of a David Baldacci novel. Within five seconds, he told U.S. senators at a hearing this week on artificial intelligence and copyright, the chatbot spat out a pastiche of characters, settings and plot twists that were uncannil