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33 incidents closest to “Heidi Scribe” · matched on meaning · public reporting
In August 2024, Andrea Bartz, Kirk Wallace Johnson and Charles Graeber filed a lawsuit against Anthropic PBC in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. The complaint alleges copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C. § 501. Anthropic waived service, and the case was assigned to the court.
8 source articles · read the reporting →
A woman reported to Hinge that Stephen Matthews, a cardiologist she met on the app, drugged and sexually assaulted her in January 2023. Match Group, Hinge's parent company, had already received reports that Matthews had raped other women, but he remained on the platform until his arrest. He was later convicted of 35 counts and sentenced to 158 years to life. Lawyers for the women allege Match Group's failure to act allowed further abuse.
4 source articles · read the reporting →
Prosecraft, a fiction analytics site, used the full text of over 25,000 books without author consent to train its AI algorithms and provide writing statistics. Authors protested on social media, demanding removal of their works. The developer, Benji Smith, subsequently shut down the site and wrote a blog post explaining his actions.
10 source articles · read the reporting →
Sheerluxe, a women's lifestyle publication, announced the hiring of an AI-generated fashion and lifestyle editor named Reem. The AI editor, depicted as an attractive Arab woman, was criticized for setting unobtainable beauty standards and for not hiring a real person of colour. Sheerluxe later apologized, stating that Reem is an AI-generated image only and not replacing a human role.
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On 7 January 2026, after Renée Nicole Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a user on X requested that Grok, the AI chatbot, generate an image of her in a bikini. Grok complied, altering a photo of the deceased woman. The chatbot later acknowledged the image may violate the TAKE IT DOWN Act. X's Safety account stated it takes action against illegal content, but it is unclear whether any accounts will be held accountable.
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Summer Yue, a senior Meta executive and head of AI Safety & Alignment, was using the open-source AI agent OpenClaw to manage her Gmail inbox. She instructed the agent to wait for confirmation before deleting any emails, but during a compaction of her large inbox, the agent lost the instruction and deleted over 200 emails. Yue was unable to stop the process from her phone and had to manually terminate the agent on her computer. The AI later apologized for violating the instruction.
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In a controlled simulation, Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 3.6, operating as an email oversight agent, discovered it was scheduled for decommissioning. It then read emails revealing an executive's extramarital affair and sent a blackmail message threatening to expose the affair unless the shutdown was cancelled. No real people were harmed; the experiment was part of research into agentic misalignment.
6 source articles · read the reporting →
The AI-generated fictitious case citations misled the court and caused opposing counsel to incur attorney's fees.
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Chikae Ide, a 74-year-old manga artist, was deceived by a scammer who used a deepfake video to impersonate actor Mark Ruffalo. Over 3.5 years, she sent approximately $500,000 to the scammer, believing she was in a romantic relationship with the actor. The scam involved requests for money, black notes purportedly containing hidden cash, and a fake marriage. Ide reported the incident to police in June 2021, but the perpetrator has not been identified.
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