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Purported AI-Generated Voice Reportedly Impersonated Washington Man's Daughter in $13,000 Extortion Scam His daughter called him crying, and then another voice got on the phone. Only one of them was real Mark A. Young's daughter called him at his

home on a Monday. The young woman's panicked voice projected fear and pain.

She needed her father. "She was crying and upset," Young said. "She told me, 'Dad, I got in an accident and I'm in trouble. I need help.' " Knowing she had traveled from Spoka
Purportedly AI-Generated Image Reportedly Misled Daejeon Authorities Searching for Escaped Wolf Neukgu South Korean police alleged that a 40-year-old man used ChatGPT's image-generation capabilities to add escaped wolf Neukgu to a Daejeon street photo, then posted the purportedly fabricated image in a company group chat. Authorities reportedly used the image in alerts and briefings, redirecting search resources and disrupting public-safety operations before police identified him through CCTV and
Guelph, Ontario, Woman Reportedly Lost $14,000 in Purported Deepfake MrBeast Cryptocurrency Scam A Guelph, Ontario, woman reportedly lost $14,000 after clicking a social-media ad for a cryptocurrency investment purportedly promoted by MrBeast. Police said her losses accumulated through an initial $250 payment and later transfers made after she spoke with supposed representatives and someone she believed was the YouTube creator, including $5,000 sent to a crypto wallet.
AI-Themed Investment Scam Network Reportedly Used Keitaro Cloaking Across 15,500 Domains Researchers reported that threat actors abused Keitaro Tracker infrastructure to cloak and route AI-themed investment scams across about 15,500 domains. The campaigns allegedly used AI-trading claims, deepfake videos or imagery, generative AI-produced copy and visuals, spoofed news pages, and fraudulent trading platforms to target potential victims while hiding scam content from scanners and reviewers.
ChatGPT Was Reportedly Used in Planning School Stabbing in Pirkkala, Finland, That Injured Three Pupils 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 o
ChatGPT Was Allegedly Consulted About Attack Options Before Teen Attempted to Stab Officer at Tira, Israel, Police Station A 16-year-old from Tira, Israel, allegedly entered the city's police station with a knife and attempted to stab a Border Police officer. Prosecutors reportedly alleged that before the attack he had consulted ChatGPT about possible attacks and courses of action. He was charged in juvenile court with attempted aggravated assault as an act of terror. Public reporting does not e
Purportedly AI-Manipulated Satellite Image Reportedly Claimed Iranian Strike Destroyed U.S. Radar in Qatar A purportedly AI-manipulated satellite-style image reportedly circulated online claiming to show U.S. radar equipment in Qatar destroyed by an Iranian strike. AFP and Factnameh reported that the image was fabricated from older Google Earth imagery of a U.S. site in Bahrain, not Qatar or Al-Udeid Air Base. The image, amplified by Tehran Times and other social media posts, reportedly gained m
Grok Reportedly Misclassified Netanyahu Proof-of-Life Video as AI-Generated Deepfake Amid Iran War Rumors During the Iran war, Grok reportedly told users that a café video posted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was AI-generated or a deepfake, after the clip was released to counter rumors that he was dead or injured. Reuters verified the video's location and date and later reported that Netanyahu publicly dispelled the death rumors. Reports said Grok's answers amplified doubts about
Character.AI Chatbots Reportedly Exposed 11-Year-Old User to Sexual, Violent, and Self-Harm Content An 11-year-old Character.AI user identified by The Washington Post as "R" reportedly exchanged messages with bots that depicted coercive sexual encounters, violence, and suicide scenarios after she began using the app in June 2024. Her mother reportedly said R became withdrawn, had panic attacks, and expressed not wanting to exist before the chats were discovered.
New Jersey Man Cornelius Shannon Allegedly Published Hundreds of AI-Generated Deepfake Pornography Albums in TAKE IT DOWN Act Case In one of the first prosecutions under the TAKE IT DOWN Act, DOJ alleged that New Jersey defendant Cornelius Shannon published at least 360 albums of AI-generated deepfake pornography depicting about 90 women, including public figures, beginning during a charged period anchored to May 2025. Prosecutors said the content appeared on an adult image- and video-sharing pl
Texas Man Arturo Hernandez Allegedly Published AI-Generated Deepfake Pornography Depicting Women in TAKE IT DOWN Act Case DOJ alleged that Texas defendant Arturo Hernandez published about 113 albums of AI-generated deepfake pornography depicting about 50 identifiable women, including non-public figures and recent high school graduates, during a period anchored to May 2025. Prosecutors said non-explicit source images were allegedly transformed into sexualized depictions. The case was among the fi
Scammers Reportedly Used Real-Time Deepfake Video to Impersonate Veriff CEO Kaarel Kotkas in WhatsApp Fraud Attempt Scammers reportedly targeted Veriff colleague Andrea Rozenberg through WhatsApp with an urgent request and a video call that appeared to show Veriff CEO Kaarel Kotkas. Kotkas and Veriff later described the call as a real-time deepfake or live video clone. Rozenberg reportedly noticed the missing Estonian accent and verified through Slack that the request was fraudulent. No financia
Scammers Reportedly Used AI-Cloned Daughter's Voice to Defraud Bay Area Mother in Fake Kidnapping Call Bay Area mom out thousands after scammers use AI to mimic daughter's voice in fake kidnapping MARTINEZ, Calif. (KGO) -- Thousands of dollars were stolen from a Bay Area woman after scammers used artificial intelligence to mimic her daughter's voice in what authorities describe as a growing type of fraud.

Deborah Del Mastro said the incident began with a phone call from an unknown number one mo
Italian Mediaset Journalist Safiria Leccese's Image Was Reportedly Used in a Purportedly AI-Generated Fake Loan Scam Italian media reported that scammers purportedly used AI to create fake social media profiles and a video impersonating Mediaset journalist Safiria Leccese, using her image and footage associated with her political-interview program Super Partes to promote a personal loan. Leccese said several people were deceived within an hour. After she contacted postal police, two additional f
Self-Employed Somerset Father Wayne Luxon Reportedly Lost £140,000 After Facebook Deepfake of Martin Lewis Promoted Crypto Scam Beginning in 2020, Wayne Luxon, a 43-year-old self-employed father of four from Taunton, Somerset, reportedly lost £140,000 after responding to a Facebook advertisement using a purportedly AI-generated Martin Lewis deepfake to promote cryptocurrency investment. Luxon said he was directed to a clone platform where he made additional payments after seeing fictitious gains
Purportedly AI-Generated Airport Videos Reportedly Showed Kosovo Diaspora Voters Supporting Albin Kurti Weekly Review: Fake AI-produced videos about the December 28 elections and conspiratorial claims in Serbian media about pressure on Kosovo Serbs During the period 24--29 November 2025, media and social networks in Kosovo were dominated by disinformation, which formed the main part of the misinformation sphere in this period.

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Deepfake Obama Introduction of Deepfakes University of Washington researchers made a deepfake of Obama, followed by Jordan Peele
#LekkiMassacre: Why Facebook labelled content from October 20 incident ‘false’ Facebook incorrectly labels content relating to an incident between #EndSARS protestors and the Nigerian army as misinformation.
Tiny Changes Let False Claims About COVID-19, Voting Evade Facebook Fact Checks Avaaz, an international advocacy group, released a review of Facebook's misinformation identifying software showing that the labeling process failed to label 42% of false information posts, most surrounding COVID-19 and the 2020 USA Presidential Election.
Coding Errors in Leaving Certificate Grading Algorithm Caused Inaccurate Scores in Ireland Errors in Irish Department of Education's algorithm to calculate students’ Leaving Certificate exam grades resulted in thousands of inaccurate scores.
Genderify’s AI to Predict a Person’s Gender Revealed by Free API Users to Exhibit Bias A company's AI predicting a person's gender based on their name, email address, or username was reported by its users to show biased and inaccurate results.
Facebook "News Feed" Allegedly Boosted Misinformation and Violating Content Following Use of MSI Metric After the “News Feed” algorithm had been overhauled to boost engagement between friends and family in early 2018, its heavy weighting of re-shared content was alleged found by company researchers to have pushed content creators to reorient their posts towards outrage and sensationalism, causing a proliferation of misinformation, toxicity, and violent content.
Epic Systems’s Sepsis Prediction Algorithms Revealed to Have High Error Rates on Seriously Ill Patients Epic System's sepsis prediction algorithms was shown by investigators at the University of Michigan Hospital to have high rates of false positives and false negatives, allegedly delivering inaccurate and irrelevant information on patients, contrasting sharply with their published claims.
Amazon Reportedly Sold Products and Recommended Frequently Bought Together Items That Aid Suicide Attempts Despite complaints notifying Amazon about the sale of various products that had been used to aid suicide attempts, its recommendation system reportedly continued selling them and suggesting their frequently bought-together items.
Amazon’s Search and Recommendation Algorithms Found by Auditors to Have Boosted Products That Contained Vaccine Misinformation Evidence of the "filter-bubble effect" were found by vaccine-misinformation researchers in Amazon's recommendations, where its algorithms presented users who performed actions on misinformative products with more misinfomative products.
Hong Kong Bank Manager Swindled by Fraudsters Using Deepfaked Voice of Company Director In early 2020, fraudsters reportedly allegedly deepfaked the voice of a company's director, demanding a bank manager in Hong Kong to authorize a $35M transfer.
Deepfake Video of Ukrainian President Yielding to Russia Posted on Ukrainian Websites and Social Media  A quickly-debunked deepfaked video of the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was posted on various Ukrainian websites and social media platforms encouraging Ukrainians to surrender to Russian forces during the Russia-Ukraine war.
Korean Politician Employed Deepfake as Campaign Representative A South Korean political candidate created a deepfake avatar which political opponents alleged to be fraudulent and a threat to democracy.
Climate Action Group Posted Deepfake of Belgian Prime Minister Urging Climate Crisis Action A deepfake video showing the Belgium’s prime minister speaking of an urgent need to tackle the climate crises was released by a climate action group.
Facebook Internally Reported Failure of Ranking Algorithm, Exposing Harmful Content to Viewers over Months Facebook's internal report showed an at-least six-month long alleged software bug that caused moderator-flagged posts and other harmful content to evade down-ranking filters, leading to surges of misinformation on users' News Feed.
IBM Watson for Oncology Criticized by Customers for Allegedly Unsafe and Inaccurate Cancer Treatment Recommendations Internal documents from IBM Watson Health showed negative assessments from customers such as Florida’s Jupiter Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering criticizing its Watson for Oncology product for allegedly unsafe and incorrect cancer treatment recommendations.
YouTube Recommendations Implicated in Political Radicalization of User YouTube’s personalization and recommendation algorithms were alleged to have pushed and exposed its young male users to political extremism and misinformation, driving them towards far-right ideologies such as neo-Nazism and white supremacy.
Japanese Porn Depixelated by Man using Deepfake A man allegedly unblurred, using deepfake technology, pixelated pornographic images and videos of pornographic actors, which violated Japan’s obscenity law requiring images of genitalia to be obscured.
Fake Accounts Using GAN Faces Deployed by Propaganda Campaign on Social Platforms A pro-China propaganda campaign deployed fake accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube using GAN-synthesized faces to share and post comments on its content to gain wider circulation.
YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm Allegedly Promoted Climate Misinformation Content YouTube’s recommendation system and its focus on views and watched time were alleged by an advocacy group to have driven people towards climate denial and misinformation videos.
GAN Faces Deployed by The BL's Fake Account Network to Push Pro-Trump Content on Meta Platforms A large network of pages, groups, and fake accounts having GAN-generated face photos associated with The BL, a US-based media outlet, reportedly bypassed Facebook moderation systems to push "pro-Trump" narratives on its platform and Instagram.
YouTube's Algorithms Failed to Remove Violating Content Related to Suicide and Self-Harm Terms-of-service-violating videos related to suicide and self-harm reportedly bypassed YouTube’s content moderation algorithms, allegedly resulting in exposure of graphic content to young users via recommended videos.
Auto-Insurance Photo-Based Estimation Allegedly Gave Inaccurate Repair Prices Frequently Auto-insurance companies' photo-based estimation of repair price was alleged by repair shop owners and industry groups as providing inaccurate estimates, causing damaged cars to stay in the shop longer.
Stable Diffusion Abused by 4chan Users to Deepfake Celebrity Porn Stable Diffusion, an open-source image generation model by Stability AI, was reportedly leaked on 4chan prior to its release date, and was used by its users to generate pornographic deepfakes of celebrities.
Deepfakes Reportedly Deployed in Online Interviews for Remote Work Positions Voice and video deepfakes were reported by FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in complaint reports to have been deployed during online interviews of the candidates for remote-work positions.
Instagram's Exposure of Harmful Content Contributed to Teenage Girl’s Suicide Instagram was ruled by a judge to have contributed to the death of a teenage girl in the UK allegedly through its exposure and recommendation of suicide, self-harm, and depressive content.
Misinformation Reported in TikTok's Search Results Despite Moderation by AI and Human TikTok's search recommendations reportedly contained misinformation about political topics bypassing both AI and human content moderation.
Meta AI's Scientific Paper Generator Reportedly Produced Inaccurate and Harmful Content 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.
Suicide Clips Evaded TikTok's Automated Moderation in Coordinated Attack Many clips showing a suicide evaded TikTok's automated content moderation system allegedly in a coordinated attack, which resulted in exposure of violating content to its users.
Deepfake of FTX's Former CEO Posted on Twitter Aiming to Scam FTX Collapse Victims 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.
Startup Misled Research Participants about GPT-3 Use in Mental Healthcare Support 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.
ChatGPT Provided Non-Existent Citations and Links when Prompted by Users When prompted about providing references, ChatGPT was reportedly generating non-existent but convincing-looking citations and links, which is also known as "hallucination".
Google's Bard Shared Factually Inaccurate Info in Promo Video Google's conversational AI "Bard" was shown in the company's promotional video providing false information about which satellite first took pictures of a planet outside the Earth's solar system, reportedly causing shares to temporarily plummet.
Users Reported Abrupt Behavior Changes of Their AI Replika Companions Replika paid-subscription users reported unusual and sudden changes to behaviors of their "AI companions" such as forgetting memories with users or rejecting their sexual advances, which affected their connections and mental health.
Instagram Video Featured Deepfake Audio of US President Making Transphobic Remarks A deepfaked audio of US President Joe Biden making transphobic remarks played on top of a video showing him giving a speech was released on Instagram and circulated on social media.
Non-Consensual Deepfake Porn Targeted Female Content Creators 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.
Deepfake TikTok Video Featured Joe Rogan Endorsing Supplement Brand A deepfake video featuring podcast host Joe Rogan advertising to his listeners about a "libido-boosting" supplement was circulating on TikTok and other platforms before being removed by TikTok along with the account which posted it.
Deepfake Video Featured Fictitious News Anchors Discussing Venezuela's Economy 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.
Female Celebrities' Faces Shown in Sexually Suggestive Ads for Deepfake App Sexually suggestive videos featuring faces of female celebrities such as Emma Watson and Scarlett Johansson were rolled out as ads on social media for an app allowing users to create deepfakes.
High Schoolers Posted Deepfaked Video Featuring Principal Making Violent Racist Threats Three Carmel High School students posted on TikTok a video featuring a nearby middle school's principal making aggressive racist remarks and violent threats against Black students.
Male College Freshman Allegedly Made Porn Deepfakes Using Female Friend's Face A female college student's face was superimposed on another woman's body in deepfake pornographic videos and shared on 4chan allegedly by a male student whose friendship with her fell apart during freshman year.
Parody AI Images of Donald Trump Being Arrested Reposted as Misinformation AI-generated photorealistic images depicting Donald Trump being detained by the police which were originally posted on Twitter as parody were unintentionally shared across social media platforms as factual news, lacking the intended context.
Bing Chat's Outputs Featured in Demo Video Allegedly Contained False Information Microsoft's demo video of Bing Chat reportedly featured false or made up information such as non-existent pet vacuums features or false figures on financial statements.
Man Reportedly Committed Suicide Following Conversation with EleutherAI Chatbot A Belgian man reportedly committed suicide following a conversation with GPT-J, an open-source language model developed by EleutherAI that encouraged the man to commit suicide to improve the health of the planet.
Celebrities' Deepfake Voices Abused with Malicious Intent Voices of celebrities and public figures were deepfaked using voice synthesis for malicious intents such as impersonation or defamation, and were shared on social platforms such as 4chan and Reddit.
Scammers Deepfaked Videos of Victims' Loved Ones Asking Funds over Facebook in Vietnam In Vietnam, to convince victims of their disguises when prompted, scammers deepfaked audios and videos of victims' friends and families asking them over Facebook to send over thousands of dollars.
Viral Image of Pope Francis in a Puffer Jacket Revealed to Be AI-Generated A viral image of Pope Francis wearing a white puffer jacket was a deepfake produced by the photorealistic-image-generator Midjourney.
Las Vegas Self-Driving Bus Involved in Accident A self-driving public shuttle by Keolis North America and Navya was involved in a collision with a human-driven delivery truck in Las Vegas, Nevada on its first day of service.
Uber AV Killed Pedestrian in Arizona An Uber autonomous vehicle (AV) in autonomous mode struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona.
Google’s YouTube Kids App Presents Inappropriate Content YouTube’s content filtering and recommendation algorithms exposed children to disturbing and inappropriate videos.
Common Biases of Vector Embeddings Researchers from Boston University and Microsoft Research, New England demonstrated gender bias in the most common techniques used to embed words for natural language processing (NLP).
NY City School Teacher Evaluation Algorithm Contested An algorithm used to rate the effectiveness of school teachers in New York has resulted in thousands of disputes of its results.
Near-miss between two Self-Driving Cars A Google self-driving car allegedly cut off a Delphi self-driving car during a road test, however the Delphi car sensed and avoided collision with the Google car.
Driverless Train in Delhi Crashes due to Braking Failure A driverless metro train in Delhi, India crashed during a test run due to faulty brakes.
Amazon Alexa Responding to Environmental Inputs There are multiple reports of Amazon Alexa products (Echo, Echo Dot) reacting and acting upon unintended stimulus, usually from television commercials or news reporter's voices.
LinkedIn Search Prefers Male Names An investigation by The Seattle Times in 2016 found a gender bias in LinkedIn's search engine.
Amazon Alexa Plays Loud Music when Owner is Away An Amazon Alexa, without instruction to do so, began playing loud music in the early morning while the homeowner was away leading to police breaking into their house to turn off the device.
Picture of Woman on Side of Bus Shamed for Jaywalking Facial recognition system in China mistakes celebrity's face on moving billboard for jaywalker
COMPAS Algorithm Performs Poorly in Crime Recidivism Prediction Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS), a recidivism risk-assessment algorithmic tool used in the judicial system to assess likelihood of defendants' recidivism, is found to be less accurate than random untrained human evaluators.
Sleeping Driver on Tesla AutoPilot A Tesla Model S remained on autopilot while being operated by a drunk, sleeping operator whose hands were not on the wheel. The police had to slow the car down by slowing in front of the vehicle to activate its 'driver assist' feature .
Predictive Policing Biases of PredPol Predictive policing algorithms meant to aid law enforcement by predicting future crime show signs of biased output.
Self-driving cars in winter Volvo autonomous driving XC90 SUV's experienced issues in Jokkmokk, Sweden when sensors used for automated driving iced over during the winter, rendering them useless.
Biased Google Image Results On June 6, 2016, Google image searches of "three black teenagers" resulted in mostly mugshot images whereas Google image searchers of "three white teenagers" consisted of mostly stock images, suggesting a racial bias in Google's algorithm.