AI Incident Database

AI-powered content generators created fake obituaries for living people that appeared in search results and on funeral home websites, causing reputational harm and emotional distress with limited recourse for removal.

ChatGPT fabricated detailed sexual harassment allegations against Georgia radio host Mark Walters in June 2023, leading to one of the first major defamation lawsuits against an AI company for generating false information about real people.

ChatGPT fabricated a sexual harassment allegation against law professor Jonathan Turley, citing a non-existent Washington Post article when asked for examples of legal scholars involved in harassment cases.

ChatGPT falsely accused Australian Mayor Brian Hood of bribery conviction when he was actually a whistleblower in the scandal. Hood threatened the first-ever defamation lawsuit against an AI chatbot before the issue was resolved.