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AI Incident Radar
A free, continuously-updated feed of real AI failures — curated case studies plus a live feed pulled from the news every 30 minutes. No login required.
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2026-08-23
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2026-08-22
Amazon, Twitch Face Class Action Lawsuit Over Generative AI Training - Insider Gaming
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2026-08-21
Elon Musk’s company’s lawsuit blames Bentonville photographer for sexualizing images using AI took Grok - Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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2026-08-20
The EU’s AI Act Now Requires Disclosure — Or a €15M Fine - sociable.co
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2026-08-20
How to Fine-Tune an LLM: An End-to-End Guide - Towards Data Science
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2026-08-18
State Farm defense lawyers admit AI generated fake cases in LA lawsuit - LAist
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2026-08-18
State Farm defense lawyers admit AI generated fake cases in LA lawsuit - Palo Alto Online
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2026-08-18
State Farm defense lawyers admit AI generated fake cases in LA lawsuit - CalMatters
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2026-08-18
Appeals court flags AI-generated fake cases in San Antonio ISD lawsuit - KSAT
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2026-08-18
Appeals court flags AI-generated fake cases in San Antonio ISD lawsuit - KSAT
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2026-08-17
Otter.ai faces privacy class action - Courthouse News
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2026-08-16
Rogue AI Incident: OpenAI's Autonomous Agent Breach - The Cryptonomist
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2026-08-14
Data breach notices have already blown past last year’s total — and AI is playing a growing role - CNBC
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2026-08-14
Podcast: Deepfake fraud goes industrial as identity defenses evolve - Biometric Update
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2026-08-13
Data breach costs climb as AI-powered attacks surge - Financial Management magazine
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2026-08-11
Crypto impersonation scams grew 1,400% as AI supercharged fraud - The Next Web
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2026-08-11
$30 AI Fraud Kits Are Letting Criminals Walk Right Past Facial Recognition - CUToday
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2026-08-10
Humans Trained to Spot AI Faces in the Battle Against Deepfake Fraud - The Good Men Project
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2026-08-09
Workday lawsuit alleges AI bias in hiring - PressReader
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2026-08-07
What does a data breach cost? AI is a sizable factor - csoonline.com
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Coding agent deleted a production database
Unauthorized tool use
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2023
Over-reliance on driver-assist automation
Automation over-reliance
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2021
Zillow Offers iBuying model drift
Concept drift
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2021
Dutch benefits-fraud algorithm discriminated
Bias + over-reliance
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COMPAS recidivism scores racially biased
Disparate impact
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Knight Capital runaway trading algorithm
Runaway autonomous action
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$25M lost to a deepfake video-call CEO
Deepfake social engineering
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2023
Indirect prompt-injection data exfiltration
Prompt injection
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AI hiring tool auto-rejected older applicants
Age discrimination
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2023
Model data poisoning (PoisonGPT)
Data / model poisoning
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Algorithm auto-denied insurance claims at scale
Automation harm / over-reliance
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Clearview AI unlawful biometric scraping
Unlawful processing
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Ad-delivery algorithm enabled housing discrimination
Discriminatory targeting
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UK A-level grading algorithm downgraded students
Bias
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Apple Card credit-limit gender-bias claims
Disparate impact
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Amazon recruiting tool biased against women
Training-data bias
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2026-08-22
Watch Dr. Desmond Patton expose AI’s bias against Black youth - NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts
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2026-08-22
Watch Dr. Desmond Patton expose AI’s bias against Black youth - Rolling Out
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2026-08-21
Findem Emphasizes Responsible AI Strategy in Hiring Technology - TipRanks
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2026-08-21
Dan Shipper: OpenAI's Rogue AI Incident Is a Solvable Engineering Problem, Not a Doomsday Scenario - finance.biggo.com
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2026-08-21
AI Chatbot Jailbreaking Security Threat is ‘Immediate, Tangible, and Deeply Concerning’ - TechRepublic
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2026-08-21
Online streamers sue Twitch, Amazon over generative AI training - Courthouse News
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2026-08-21
Woman covertly filmed by Meta AI smart glasses raises privacy and consent concerns: "I had no say" - CBS News
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2026-08-21
STATEMENT FROM MARIA SHRIVER REGARDING FRAUDULENT AI DEEPFAKE ADVERTISEMENTS AND FALSE ALZHEIMER’S SUPPLEMENT ENDORSEMENTS - mariashriver.com
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2026-08-21
Industry Voices—Hospital AI committees are asking the wrong privacy question - Fierce Healthcare
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2026-08-21
Singapore Forces TikTok and Meta to Verify Ads After Deepfake Scam Surge - Startup Fortune
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2026-08-21
Workday’s Discovery Wins Make It Harder to Prove AI Bias Case - Bloomberg Law News
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2026-08-21
Schools are starting to teach AI literacy. For many, that means helping kids see chatbots' flaws - ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
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2026-08-21
AI led to mistakes in Nevada County criminal cases. Should the DA be sanctioned? - CalMatters
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2026-08-20
Today’s Podcast Release: The “Confidence Advantage”: Why Privacy, Cybersecurity and AI Governance Are Becoming Business Imperatives - Consumer Finance Monitor
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2026-08-20
A scoping review on the mental health harms of LLM-based chatbots - Nature
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2026-08-20
OpenAI previews privacy-focused system for detecting AI misuse - Help Net Security
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2026-08-20
AI bias isn’t just an error in the algorithm. It’s a chain of human decisions - The Conversation
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2026-08-19
How attackers persuade AI agents to break the rules - Tech Xplore
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2026-08-19
Family scammed by fake AI immigration attorney - FOX 11 Los Angeles
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2026-08-19
An LLM wiki changed how I work - Platformer
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2026-08-18
Haven Expands Strategic Advisory Board with Leaders in AI, Privacy, Cybersecurity and Growth - Yahoo Finance
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2026-08-18
Adapting Privacy Rights Processes for Emerging AI Regulations - FTI Consulting
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2026-08-18
Polish minister accuses Meta of censorship in deepfake scam dispute - Anadolu Ajansı
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2026-08-17
The AI privacy problem we’re opting into - Tech Brew
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2026-08-17
Meridian Township warns seniors about AI-generated property tax scam - WILX
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2026-08-17
Reading the Signals in the OWASP LLM Top 10 2026 - Check Point Blog
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2026-08-17
Deepfake Albanese Pitching $40,000 Returns Led $7.4M in Australian Scam Losses - Tech Times
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2026-08-16
Deepfake Anthony Albanese used in celebrity scams duping Australians out of $7.4m, Asic warns - The Guardian
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2026-08-16
AI deepfakes an 'emergency in the making' and Alan Kohler is on the front line - ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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2026-08-16
The OWASP LLM Top 10 Was the Warm-Up: What Comes Next - Security Boulevard
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2026-08-15
UC introduces AI Buddy Program for staff amid learning, privacy concerns - Daily Bruin
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2026-08-14
RAD Security unveils AI-powered incident investigation - SourceSecurity.com
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2026-08-14
The OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications 2026: From Model Risks to Agentic Security - Akamai
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2026-08-14
81% of global IT leaders say AI failure puts career “at risk” | CX Network - CX Network
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2026-08-13
6 Biases in AI and 6 Ways to Fix It - AI CERTs
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2026-08-13
French CNIL Publishes Note on Agentic AI and Data Protection - Inside Privacy
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2026-08-13
Person Hides Prompt Injection in Legal Filing Telling AI to Side With Them - 404 Media
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2026-08-13
Best AI security tools for small and mid-sized businesses in 2026 - Acronis
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2026-08-13
AI helped me (almost) build a killer drone - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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2026-08-13
Generative AI Cybersecurity Market Size, Share Report 2033 - Grand View Research
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2026-08-12
Bias is implicit in all AI, even legal AI - Daily Journal
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2026-08-12
[Webinar] AI, Privacy, and Employees: Understanding Legal Risks and Liabilities for Employers - JD Supra
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2026-08-12
OWASP Top 10 for LLM Apps 2026: Excessive agency risk on the rise - ReversingLabs
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2026-08-12
AI Videos Are Getting Harder To Spot — What To Look For - forbes.com
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2026-08-12
AI Bias Explained | Why It Matters In Artificial Intelligence | The Knowledge Academy Airbus A321xlr (X4aNWM4ZcP) - Mshale
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2026-08-12
Split-second deepfake glitch blows digital certificate fraudster’s cover - Help Net Security
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2026-08-12
Preventing the Next Hugging Face Hack: Funding the Science of Reliable AI - Americans for Responsible Innovation
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2026-08-12
AI Scams Are Rising In 2026 – Here’s How To Protect Yourself - Forbes
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2026-08-12
From principles to practice: Making an AI bill of rights work in a downstream Philippines - Manila Bulletin
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2026-08-11
Meta Fights Ex-Workers' Rehire Bid In Suit Alleging AI Bias - Law360
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2026-08-11
Meta Fights Ex-Workers' Rehire Bid In Suit Alleging AI Bias - Law360
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2026-08-11
Meta Fights Ex-Workers' Rehire Bid In Suit Alleging AI Bias - law360.com
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2026-08-11
AG Sunday joins coalition demanding accountability after ‘rogue AI’ incident - NorthcentralPA.com
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2026-08-11
Research Across the Agent Stack: The Poster Sessions at the Berkeley RDI Agentic AI Summit 2026 - Medium
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2026-08-11
FTC Targets Anthropic for AI Bias, Shields Grok Despite Musk’s Admitted Interventions - Tech Times
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2026-08-11
AI Regulation in Flux: U.S. and global shift toward “lighter touch” - JD Supra
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2026-08-11
Deepfake OnlyFans accounts are scamming fans and putting creators at risk - Bitdefender
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2026-08-11
Deepfake OnlyFans accounts are scamming fans and putting creators at risk - Bitdefender
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2026-08-10
Mark Cutifani on Ageism, AI Bias and Mining’s Image Crisis - Discovery Alert
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2026-08-10
Is that video real? How to spot a deepfake before it fools you - bitdefender.com
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2026-08-10
Is that video real? How to spot a deepfake before it fools you - Bitdefender
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2026-08-10
How to report an AI Act violation in the EU - helpnetsecurity.com
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2026-08-10
PHANTOM-B Brings LLM Threat Modeling Into Focus - GovInfoSecurity
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2026-08-09
The OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident Was an Identity Failure Before It Was an AI Failure - HackerNoon
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2026-08-09
AI Incident Investigation Agents - Trend Hunter
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2026-08-09
AI Incident Investigation Agents - Trend Hunter
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2026-08-09
Douglas County warns residents about viral AI-generated property tax scam - Denver Gazette
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2026-08-09
AI Voice Cloning Helped Push Business Email Scam Losses Past $3 Billion - Startup Fortune
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2026-08-08
Generative AI Could 'Invent' Biological Discoveries That Don't Exist - ScienceAlert
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2026-08-08
Deepfake victim urges better regulation of 'dangerous' AI - BBC
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2026-08-07
A Guide for New Jersey Employers on AI + Workplace Algorithmic Discrimination Risks - jdsupra.com
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2026-08-07
How AI Is Changing the Privacy of Your Health Records - ElderLawAnswers
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2026-08-07
Why deepfake detection is becoming trust infrastructure - Biometric Update
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2026-08-07
Text-to-SQL: Comparison of LLM Accuracy - aimultiple.com
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2026-08-07
What the first year of EU AI Act transparency enforcement could look like - Help Net Security
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2026-08-07
AI Is Already Shaping Workers’ Compensation and Responsibility Did Not Disappear - WorkersCompensation.com
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2026-08-06
Fake tax relief program: St. Louis County warns seniors about AI-generated videos - FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
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2026-08-06
A Guide for New Jersey Employers on AI + Workplace Algorithmic Discrimination Risks - The National Law Review
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2024
Air Canada chatbot gave a false refund policy
Hallucination
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2024
Hallucinated package names enable supply-chain attacks
Hallucination → supply chain
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2023
Samsung engineers leaked code into ChatGPT
Data leakage
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ChatGPT leaked other users’ data via a cache bug
Data leakage
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Lawyer filed AI-hallucinated case citations
Hallucination
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2023
Solely-automated decision without safeguards
Unlawful automated decision
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Microsoft Tay turned toxic within hours
Manipulation / toxic output
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Dealer chatbot jailbroken into a $1 car offer
Jailbreak / prompt injection
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2026-08-14
Opinion: Generative AI sparks widespread ethical discourse - USI | student newspaper
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2026-08-13