Incidents gathered from public reporting around the world. Each one links to the articles it came from. None of it is a finding that anyone broke the law.
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284 incidents closest to “Veritone Track” · matched on meaning · public reporting
An empty Waymo robotaxi blocked and delayed a fire truck responding to an Austin hotel alarm.
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A court filing alleges ICE agents stored photos and license plates of protest observers in a Palantir-built database, labeled some of them as threats, and ran facial recognition searches on them.
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A Joliet police lieutenant is charged with felony computer tampering, accused of using the Flock license-plate reader system to flag a female officer's vehicle as wanted, stolen or driven recklessly, which could have led to police stops.
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The YouTube channel True Crime Case Files, which launched in late 2023, gained millions of views with videos purporting to be true crime documentaries. An investigation by the Denver Post revealed that the stories, including one about a murder in Littleton, Colorado, were entirely fabricated and likely generated by AI. The channel did not disclose that the cases were not real, leading viewers to believe they were genuine. Experts warned that such AI-generated misinformation is a growing problem, with the channel potentially earning tens of thousands of dollars from the deceptive content.
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Ring, an Amazon company, promoted its Search Party feature in a Super Bowl advertisement, saying its AI helps reunite dog owners with missing pets. Critics said the feature, which is enabled by default, turns Ring doorbells into a mass surveillance network and could easily be adapted to track people. Ring said it had reunited 99 dogs in the US in 90 days and that customers keep full control of their data.
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A Florida police officer was placed on leave after TCPalm questioned the officer's searches of Flock license-plate data on people's movements.
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The AI system generated fabricated legal citations that were included in a court filing, misleading the court and opposing counsel.
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The system provided 30 days of location data on the driver's vehicle, which led to a traffic stop and search.
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قامت سيارات الأجرة ذاتية القيادة من شركة Waymo بإبلاغ الشرطة بشكل استباقي بعد اكتشافها أن أحد الركاب كان يخفي مسدساً.…
A Waymo self-driving taxi in San Francisco detected two teenage passengers carrying an unidentified AR-15 rifle loaded with ammunition. The vehicle automatically stopped and alerted police, leading to the arrest of the two teenagers. Waymo stated that its system can identify violations of its terms of service, including carrying weapons, and will proactively notify police.
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The system allowed unauthorized tracking of individuals' vehicles through license plate recognition, affecting five subjects including an ex-girlfriend who was searched 3,000 times.
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Former officer used Flock cameras to surveil and stalk his ex-girlfriend, her family members, and other romantic interests.
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The Flock ALPR system was used by deputies to track the locations of a woman and a teenage girl for personal, non-law-enforcement purposes.
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The Flock camera system collected and stored license plate data, and a former deputy allegedly accessed it without authorization.
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Contractors were fired for using AI to complete their work.
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The smart glasses recorded bystanders without their consent and sent the footage to Meta for AI training.
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The system incorrectly linked Lindsey Isaacs's vehicle to a fatal crash scene, leading to her wrongful arrest and 13-day detention.
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An officer conducted an unauthorized search of the Flock Safety automatic license plate reader system without a legitimate law enforcement purpose.
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A generative AI tool drafted a temporary restraining order in Jackson Federation of Teachers v. Fitch containing fabricated parties, declarations, and statutory language, affecting the state of Mississippi and the plaintiffs.
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A sheriff's deputy pulled a month of a woman's location history from a networked license-plate-reader database without a warrant.
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The AI-generated victim impact statement influenced the judge's sentencing of Gabriel Paul Horcasitas.
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Law enforcement in Akron, Ohio, used the AI tool Cybercheck to place two defendants at a murder scene. Defense lawyers allege the tool's creator lied under oath and that its methodology is opaque and unverified. Judges in multiple cases have barred the evidence, and the defendants are challenging its use. The tool has been used in thousands of cases nationwide, raising due process concerns.
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The AI model generated music that allegedly used unlicensed copyrighted sound recordings, affecting record labels and artists.
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The Flock camera system captured license plate data of individuals.
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The system tracked the location of the boyfriend's ex-wife.
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