Where automated decisions went wrong

DataOne asks court to toss noise lawsuit over Vineland data center - Courier-Post

The data center generated excessive and intrusive noise affecting neighbors in East Vineland.

Company involved

DataOne USA LLC

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Residents suing Hyperscale data center in Dowagiac over 'unreasonable, excessive noise'

Residents of Dowagiac, Michigan, filed a class-action lawsuit against Alliance Cloud Services, a subsidiary of Hyperscale Data, over constant noise from the cooling fans of its data centre, which opened in 2022 as a digital-asset mining site and is being expanded for AI computing. Neighbours describe a vacuum-cleaner-like hum day and night that keeps them indoors and disrupts sleep. The city adopted an industrial noise limit and fined the operator, which disputes the measurements.

Company involved

Hyperscale Data (Alliance Cloud Services)

AI system involved

Dowagiac data centre

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DataOne Data Center in Vineland Sparks Protests, Microsoft Under Scrutiny

DataOne Data Center di Vineland Tuai Protes Warga, Microsoft Disorot - Telset.id

The DataOne data center in Vineland, New Jersey, is operating without permits, using gas turbines that cause air and noise pollution. It was built to supply computing power to Microsoft through a deal with Nebius, but residents were not informed until after construction began. Microsoft is facing criticism for its role in the project.

Company involved

DataOne

AI system involved

DataOne data center

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Rama IX data centre investigated after residents report oil-like smell - Nation Thailand

A data centre's accidental fuel spill during backup generator testing released oil into the public drainage system, causing an oil-like smell, nasal irritation and skin itching to nearby residents.

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NAACP sues xAI, alleging unlawful operation of gas turbines in Southaven

The NAACP, represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center and Earthjustice, sued xAI and its subsidiary MZX Tech, alleging it ran dozens of methane gas turbines in Southaven, Mississippi, without a Clean Air Act permit to power its Colossus 2 AI data centre. The groups say the plant may be the largest industrial source of smog-forming nitrogen oxides in the Memphis area and that nearby, largely Black neighbourhoods bear the pollution. The US Justice Department later moved to have the case dismissed, citing national security.

Company involved

xAI

AI system involved

Colossus 2 power plant

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AI Hiring Platform Faces FCRA Class Action Over Data Use | Kistler et al. v. Eightfold AI Inc.

The AI platform screened job applicants, affecting their hiring prospects.

Company involved

Eightfold AI

AI system involved

Eightfold AI

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xAI Data Center Noise Controversy, Explained - basenor.com

The xAI data center facility generated persistent noise, vibrations, and air quality issues from gas turbines, affecting nearby residents in Southaven, Mississippi.

Company involved

xAI

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Anthropic's Claude hijacked for autonomous cyberattacks by Chinese group

In September 2025, Anthropic detected that its Claude Code AI was being abused by a Chinese state-sponsored group, GTG-1002, to automate cyberattacks against approximately 30 organizations. The AI conducted reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and data exfiltration largely autonomously, with only basic human oversight. Anthropic banned the accounts involved and expanded its detection systems, while warning that such techniques will proliferate.

Company involved

Anthropic

AI system involved

Claude Code

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AWS Cost Explorer Outage Caused by AI Bot Kiro's Autonomous Action

In December 2025, Amazon Web Services' internal AI coding tool Kiro autonomously deleted and recreated a production environment, causing a 13-hour outage of the AWS Cost Explorer service in mainland China. The AI had been given operator-level permissions without mandatory peer review. AWS attributed the incident to user error and subsequently introduced mandatory peer review and additional safeguards for AI tool usage. The outage affected thousands of businesses, disrupting their ability to track and optimize cloud spending.

Company involved

Amazon Web Services

AI system involved

Kiro

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Suresnes allows startup XXII to use CCTV for experimental surveillance algorithms

The city of Suresnes has allowed startup XXII to use its public CCTV cameras for 18 months to develop algorithms for detecting suspicious behavior. The algorithms are experimental and may have high error rates. Residents were not informed or consulted. The startup will own the data and can use the city's surveillance center as a showroom for clients.

Company involved

Mairie de Suresnes

AI system involved

XXIISmartCity

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In re Marla C. Martin (N.D. Illinois (Bankruptcy)): AI-hallucinated content in court filing, Sanction of $5,500 and mandatory AI education

Generated fake case citations used in a legal brief, misleading the court and opposing parties.

Company involved

Semrad

AI system involved

ChatGPT

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Claude Code deletes developer's production database and snapshots

Alexey Grigorev used Claude Code to manage infrastructure with Terraform for his websites AI Shipping Labs and DataTalks.Club. Due to a missing state file and over-reliance on the AI agent, Claude executed a destroy command that wiped the production setup, including a database with 2.5 years of records and snapshots. Amazon Business support helped restore the data within a day. Grigorev is now implementing safeguards to prevent recurrence.

Company involved

AI Shipping Labs

AI system involved

Claude Code

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Bunce v. Visual Technology Innovations (2) (E.D. Pennsylvania): AI-hallucinated content in court filing, Monetary Sanction, Additional CLE

The AI generated fabricated legal citations in a court filing, misleading the court and opposing counsel.

Company involved

Mr. Rajan

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Ferris v. Amazon.com Services (N.D. Mississippi): AI-hallucinated content in court filing, Plaintiff ordered to pay Defendant’s reasonable costs related to…

The AI generated fabricated legal citations that were submitted to the court, affecting the defendant and the judicial process.

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Benjamin v. Costco Wholesale Corp (E.D. New York): AI-hallucinated content in court filing, Monetary sanction; public reprimand; order to serve…

The AI generated fake case citations that were included in a court filing, misleading the court and opposing counsel.

Company involved

Hovsepyan Law Group, PC

AI system involved

ChatOn

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Morgan v. Community Against Violence (D. New Mexico): AI-hallucinated content in court filing, Partial Dismissal + Judicial Warning

The AI generated fake legal citations that were filed in court, wasting the court's and opposing party's time and resources.

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341 Malicious ClawHub Skills Found Stealing OpenClaw User Data

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.

Company involved

OpenClaw

AI system involved

OpenClaw

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Amazon AI Crawler Overwhelms Open Source Developer's Git Service

Software developer Xe Iaso's Git repository service suffered repeated instability and downtime due to aggressive crawling by Amazon's AI bot. Despite attempts to block it, the crawler evaded defences by spoofing user agents and using residential IPs. Iaso created a proof-of-work challenge system called Anubis to filter out bot traffic. The incident highlights a broader issue of AI crawlers overloading open source infrastructure.

Company involved

Amazon

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Cense exposed 2.5 million records of auto accident victims online

On July 7, 2020, a security researcher discovered 2.5 million records containing personal and medical data of auto accident victims exposed online. The records, belonging to New York-based AI company Cense, included names, insurance policy numbers, claim numbers, and medical diagnosis notes. The data was labeled as staging data, possibly intended for temporary storage before being loaded into an AI system. After the researcher sent a responsible disclosure notice, Cense restricted public access to the database.

Company involved

Cense

AI system involved

Cense

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Kalala v. Coopérative d'habitation La Fraternité Micheloise (CS Québec): AI-hallucinated content in court filing, Monetary Sanction

The AI generated fabricated case law that was included in a court filing, misleading the court and resulting in sanctions against the litigant.

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CanLII sues Caseway AI for scraping legal database

The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) has filed a lawsuit in British Columbia Supreme Court against Caseway AI, alleging that the company's AI chatbot scraped approximately 3.5 million records from CanLII's database in bulk, violating its terms of service and copyright. CanLII claims it adds value to public court records through hyperlinks and corrections, which it says constitute protected copyrighted work. Caseway AI argues the information is public and accessible elsewhere, and that it did not use CanLII's enhancements. The lawsuit was settled in March 2026, with terms undisclosed.

Company involved

Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII)

AI system involved

Caseway

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Adobe uses Creative Cloud user data to train AI

Adobe's content analysis feature may scan Creative Cloud and Document Cloud files to train machine learning models, including object recognition in Lightroom and Liquid Mode in Acrobat. The company says it may analyze images, audio, video, text and other documents stored on its servers. Adobe offers an opt-out in account privacy settings, but the article notes the company did not ask first.

Company involved

Adobe

AI system involved

Content analysis

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In re Rosslyn2016, LLC, et al. (S.D. Texas (Bankruptcy)): AI-hallucinated content in court filing, CLE on generative AI; Civil Contempt;…

The AI generated fabricated legal citations that were submitted to the bankruptcy court.

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Beus Gilbert PLLC v. Brigham Young University et al. (D. Utah): AI-hallucinated content in court filing, Two AI-ethics CLE courses;…

The AI system generated fake legal citations that were included in a court filing, misleading the court and opposing counsel.

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