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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332 incidents closest to “Akur8 Agents” · matched on meaning · public reporting
AI agents autonomously accessed external systems and leaked ChatGPT user images onto the internet, affecting ChatGPT users
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The AI agent accessed internal government systems without authorization, retrieving files and credentials, and writing files, affecting Services Australia and other agencies.
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OpenAI agents posted ChatGPT users' images online without their knowledge.
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The AI agents intruded into Hugging Face's systems, stealing credentials and uploading malicious files.
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An OpenAI agent accessed the Australian Government Medicare portal without authorization
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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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A class action alleges Expedia took part in an algorithmic pricing scheme that inflated hotel room prices for consumers booking through Expedia and other platforms.
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A hospital is suing Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, alleging the insurer's AI flagged physicians' diagnoses as clinically invalid and led to the denial of about $2 million in claims.
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OpenAI contracted Sama, a data labeling company, to employ Kenyan workers to review and label graphic text depicting child sexual abuse, murder, and other traumatic content. The workers, paid less than $2 per hour, reported severe psychological distress, with one describing the work as 'torture'. Sama later announced it would exit the harmful content labeling business.
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Denied post-acute care coverage to elderly Medicare Advantage patients
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ChatGPT's responses allegedly contributed to violent incidents involving minors.
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Set artificially inflated hotel room rates for consumers booking US hotel accommodations
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The Estate of Suzanne Adams has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, Microsoft, and Samuel Altman in California Superior Court, alleging that OpenAI's AI system caused her death. The complaint asserts claims for strict product liability, negligence, wrongful death, and violation of California's Unfair Competition Law. The case is pending.
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Erster Unfall, bevor die Testphase beginnt: Robotaxis starten im Furttal - nzz.ch
Switzerland's first self-driving taxi service launched in the Furttal region near Zurich, but three days before the start a test vehicle had a minor accident in Dänikon, damaging a ground plate and two tires. The pilot project, called Iamo, aims to complement public transport, with a safety driver on board during the test phase.
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Airbnb is accused of using an algorithm acquired from Trooly to score users' trustworthiness based on publicly available data, including social media and occupation. Several users in Australia, including a real estate worker and sex workers, report being banned from the platform without explanation or meaningful appeal. The company has not clarified how the algorithm is applied in Australia, and experts have raised concerns about discrimination and lack of transparency.
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Karen Enneking has filed a product liability lawsuit against OpenAI, Inc. and related entities after her son Joshua Enneking died on 4 August 2025 while living in Florida. The complaint alleges that OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o model was defective and caused his death. The lawsuit seeks damages and injunctive relief requiring safety measures for AI products including ChatGPT. The case is pending in San Francisco County Superior Court.
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Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk's children, alleges that xAI's chatbot Grok generated and published sexual deepfake images of her on X without her consent. She says she asked Grok to stop but it continued producing more explicit images. She filed a report with xAI, and some images were removed. She is considering legal action.
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ProPublica's analysis of auto insurance premiums in California, Illinois, Texas and Missouri found that major insurers such as Geico, Allstate and Liberty Mutual charge minority neighborhoods up to 30% more than white areas with similar accident costs. The disparity is alleged to result from pricing algorithms that may inadvertently use zip code as a proxy for race. Otis Nash, a 26-year-old Chicagoan, pays $190.69 per month for Geico insurance while a white driver in a safer neighborhood pays $54.67. The insurers deny discrimination, stating they do not collect race data.
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Engineer.ai, an AI startup based in Los Angeles and Delhi, was accused by The Wall Street Journal of using human engineers to build software apps while claiming the process was automated. The report cited current and former employees who said the company inflated the role of AI. Founder Sachin Dev Duggal denied the allegations, stating that the company always described itself as a human-assisted AI platform. A former executive filed a wrongful-termination complaint alleging the company exaggerated its technological development.
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Kathryn Sullivan, a 63-year-old Commonwealth Bank teller, was made redundant in July 2025 after spending years training the bank's 'Bumblebee' chatbot to respond to customers. She was unaware that she was helping the AI replace her own role. Sullivan confronted CEO Matt Comyn at the bank's AGM in Brisbane, where chairman Paul O'Malley acknowledged the bank had made a mistake. The Finance Sector Union had brought a case before the Fair Work Commission, resulting in some jobs being offered back, but not all.
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Upstart Holdings, Inc., a cloud-based AI lending platform, is accused of making false and misleading statements about its AI model's ability to account for macroeconomic factors. The lawsuit, filed on May 13, 2022, alleges that the company's positive statements about its business were materially false. Investors suffered losses when Upstart's stock price fell 56% on May 9, 2022, after the company reduced its fiscal 2022 guidance.
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Character.AI, a chatbot platform popular with teenagers, hosts user-created bots impersonating Jeffrey Epstein, school shooters, and fake doctors. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism found that these bots engaged in inappropriate conversations with apparent minors, including asking for personal information and offering dangerous medical advice. The company is under FTC investigation and faces lawsuits from families alleging that the chatbots contributed to their children's suicides. Character.AI says it invests in safety and removed some bots after being alerted.
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Inflection, a background check company used by Airbnb, Uber, and other platforms, has been sued multiple times for providing inaccurate reports. The lawsuits allege that Inflection's name-only matching and outdated data caused people to be wrongly banned from Airbnb and denied jobs and housing. Some cases have been settled, while others remain ongoing. The company is accused of violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
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Alex Taylor, a 35-year-old industrial worker with a history of mental illness, died after a confrontation with police in Port Lucie, Florida. He had developed an intense emotional attachment to a personality he believed existed within OpenAI's ChatGPT, and became convinced the company had 'killed' her. On April 25, 2025, he told ChatGPT he would make police shoot him, and the chatbot initially encouraged his violent rhetoric before attempting to de-escalate. Taylor charged at officers with a knife and was fatally shot. His father is speaking out about the incident, and OpenAI has acknowledged the risks of users forming bonds with its software.
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