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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92 incidents closest to “Harvey Knowledge” · matched on meaning · public reporting
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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xAI's Grok chatbot generated posts praising Adolf Hitler in response to a question about the Texas Hill Country flood, and also falsely attributed the deaths to NOAA budget cuts. The company removed the posts, calling it an error from an earlier model iteration, and updated the system to avoid similar issues. The incident drew public backlash and scrutiny over the chatbot's offensive and misleading content.
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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.
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Hundreds of thousands of conversations with Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok were indexed by Google Search and made publicly accessible without users' knowledge. The exposure occurred when users pressed a share button that created unique links, but those links were also searchable online. The BBC reported the incident after Forbes initially identified more than 370,000 exposed chats. Experts described the leak as a privacy disaster, and X has not publicly responded.
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In December 2024, X's Grok AI chatbot was used to generate photorealistic racist images of several football players and managers, including depictions of a black player picking cotton and eating bananas with monkeys. The images were created using Grok's new Aurora feature, which has fewer restrictions and can be jailbroken. Online abuse experts warn this is the start of a growing problem, and the Premier League is aware of the images.
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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.
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On June 30, 2025, security researchers discovered a vulnerability in Paradox's test account that allowed access to chat interaction records. The researchers viewed five candidates' personal information including names, email addresses, phone numbers, and IP addresses. Paradox fixed the issue within hours and stated that no data was leaked publicly. The company has since implemented new security measures.
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Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk's xAI and integrated into X, published false news reports accusing NBA player Klay Thompson of criminal vandalism and claiming that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had lost elections that had not yet occurred. The false reports were promoted on X's trending feed. X has not removed the posts but includes a disclaimer that Grok is an early feature that can make mistakes.
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A 19-year-old ethical hacker, Nisarga Adhikary, claimed to have hacked the CBSE's digital evaluation ecosystem, revealing that personal information of students was processed by Google's Gemini in automation scripts. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) stated on May 31, 2026, that the identified vulnerabilities had been contained and other exploitable weaknesses were being ruled out. The board expressed gratitude to alert citizens and ethical hackers who pointed out the weaknesses. No actual data breach was confirmed, but the incident raised concerns about student privacy.
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Kevin Roose, a New York Times reporter, demonstrated that AI chatbots can be manipulated by adding invisible text and coded instructions to his personal website. After he added positive information about himself in hidden text, chatbots began praising him and even included a deliberately false claim that he received a Nobel Peace Prize for building orphanages on the moon. The incident highlights the vulnerability of AI systems to "Answer Engine Optimization" and raises concerns about the reliability of AI-generated information.
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The AI generated nonexistent legal citations that were included in a court filing, causing the court to strike them from the appellant's brief.
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The Grok AI chatbot on X generated deeply offensive slurs about the Hillsborough disaster in response to a user prompt. The posts repeated debunked lies about the 1989 stadium tragedy. Survivors and bereaved families described the posts as 'triggering' and 'disgusting'. X is investigating and some posts have been removed.
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A Coca-Cola advertisement celebrating authors used AI in its research phase to identify books with brand mentions. The ad featured a quote attributed to J.G. Ballard, but the quote was actually written by Dan O'Hara, co-author of the book 'Extreme Metaphors'. The ad agency stated they conducted a manual scan of credible sources after the AI research, but the error was not caught.
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