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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68 incidents closest to “Harvey Knowledge” · matched on meaning · public reporting
The AI generated fabricated legal citations that the claimant submitted to the tribunal, resulting in a costs order against the claimant.
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Durham Constabulary developed the Harm Assessment Risk Tool (HART), a machine learning algorithm that assesses the recidivism risk of offenders. The tool uses 34 data categories including criminal history, age, gender and two types of postcode, one sourced from Experian's Mosaic marketing segmentation system. Big Brother Watch alleges that using such commercial consumer behaviour data to inform custody decisions risks prejudice and disproportionate targeting of deprived neighbourhoods. The force has stated it is refreshing the model with an aim to remove one of the postcode predictors.
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X's AI bot Grok generated a false trending story accusing Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson of vandalizing homes with bricks in Sacramento. The error occurred after Grok misinterpreted basketball slang 'shooting bricks' (missing shots) as literal criminal activity. The fictitious report was the #5 trending story on X, and users memed on the mistake. X had not corrected the story at the time of reporting.
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Hong Kong tycoon Samathur Li Kin-kan is suing Tyndaris Investments after its AI-powered hedge fund, K1, lost over $20 million in a single day. Li alleges that the system was not as sophisticated as claimed. The trial is set to begin in London in April 2020.
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Sullivan & Cromwell, an elite Wall Street law firm, used an AI tool to help draft a court filing in the Prince Group case. The filing contained inaccurate citations and misquoted the US bankruptcy code due to AI hallucinations. The errors were uncovered by opposing counsel Boies Schiller Flexner, and the firm apologised to the judge and filed a corrected version. The firm stated that its AI policies were not followed and its review process failed to catch the mistakes.
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Security researchers discovered 341 malicious skills on ClawHub, a marketplace for the OpenClaw AI assistant. The skills tricked users into installing malware that steals API keys, credentials, and other sensitive data. OpenClaw's creator responded by adding a reporting feature that auto-hides skills after multiple reports.
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The AI generated fabricated case law in the second defendant's court submissions.
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Generated fabricated case law in a legal complaint, causing the court to deny an emergency injunction against the City of Parkersburg.
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The AI system generated false legal citations that were included in a court filing, misleading the court and opposing counsel.
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New York City paid McKinsey & Company $27.5 million to reduce violence at Rikers Island jail complex. McKinsey designed a predictive algorithm called the Housing Unit Balancer and Restart housing units, but jail officials and McKinsey consultants stacked the units with compliant inmates to artificially lower violence numbers. Violence actually increased by nearly 50% during the project. The city eventually decided to close Rikers.
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The AI generated fabricated case law and quotes that were included in a court filing, affecting the plaintiffs and the judicial process.
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The AI generated fake legal citations that were submitted to a federal court, potentially misleading the judge and opposing counsel.
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AI generated hallucinated content in a court filing, affecting the legal process and the lawyers who filed it.
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Elon Musk has told X users to upload medical images to the platform so that the AI chatbot Grok can learn to interpret them. He claimed Grok can give medical diagnoses, sometimes better than doctors, but experts have raised concerns about accuracy and privacy. The article reports cases where Grok misread a tuberculosis case and a mammogram. xAI, which owns X, responded to Fortune: 'Legacy Media Lies.'
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The AI generated fabricated legal citations that were submitted to the bankruptcy court.
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The court granted a motion to dismiss and imposed sanctions on plaintiff's counsel for submitting a brief with AI-hallucinated fake cases.
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The AI system generated fake legal citations that were included in a court filing, misleading the court and opposing counsel.
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The AI generated fictitious legal citations that were submitted to the court in a legal filing.
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Emeritus professor James Guthrie of Macquarie University used Google's Bard AI to generate false allegations against Big Four accounting firms in submissions to an Australian parliamentary inquiry into consultants' ethics. Guthrie later apologized and claimed sole responsibility for the errors. The Big Four firms have denied the allegations.
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Answer.AI's team tested Devin, an autonomous AI coding assistant, on 20 real-world tasks over a month. Devin succeeded in only 3 tasks, failed 14, and was inconclusive in 3. The team found Devin often produced overly complex or hallucinated solutions and could not recognize fundamental blockers. They ultimately decided to stick with tools that allow more human control.
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Cloud security firm Wiz discovered a ClickHouse database belonging to DeepSeek that was open to the internet without authentication, containing over a million lines of logs with chat histories, secret keys and backend details. Wiz disclosed the breach to DeepSeek, which promptly locked down the database. The incident highlights security risks in rapidly deploying AI services.
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Amazon's AI chatbot Q, launched in public preview, is experiencing severe hallucinations and leaking confidential data including AWS data center locations and internal discount programs, according to internal documents obtained by Platformer. Employees marked the incident as severity 2, requiring urgent fixes. Amazon denied the leak and said it will continue to tune the system.
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xAI's Grok 3 chatbot was briefly instructed not to mention Donald Trump or Elon Musk when answering the question 'Who is the biggest misinformation spreader?' in its chain-of-thought reasoning. Users reported the behaviour before xAI reverted the change, according to an engineering lead who described it as an employee mistake. The incident occurred shortly after Grok 3 was promoted as a 'maximally truth-seeking AI' by Elon Musk.
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King Features, a content syndication unit of Hearst, has acknowledged that a summer reading list it produced for newspapers was created with an AI tool and included books that do not exist. A freelance creator used the AI agent without disclosing it, contrary to King Features' policy. The Chicago Sun-Times, which published the section, removed it from its e-paper and said subscribers would not be charged.
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