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Reports of AI-related harm and adverse experiences affecting people’s safety, wellbeing, rights and livelihoods. Explore what happened and the evidence available.

NOPE’s core concern is when AI communicates with a person, acts on their behalf, or depicts or impersonates them. The tracker also records consequential decisions, claims and privacy harms involving AI. Each case needs a described connection between AI use and the harm, including private information recorded into or disclosed to an AI service. Each account is reviewed for publication; claims may remain uncorroborated or disputed. How we review and count cases

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Event date unknownUnited StatesUnidentified voice-cloning tool (suspected)

Orlando-area woman handed thousands of dollars in cash to couriers after a jail-emergency call in a friend’s voice, which she believes was AI-cloned

WKMG News 6 reported on 5 October 2026 that a woman in the Orlando, Florida area received a call from someone who said he was her friend, that he was in jail after drinking and a crash involving a pregnant woman, and that he needed help. She told the station the voice sounded exactly like the friend. A second caller claiming to be a public defender said money was needed to get the friend out of jail. Following the callers' instructions, she put cash in an envelope with a case number and handed thousands of dollars to couriers who came to her home. She refused when the supposed attorney asked for more, and later that day reached the real friend, who had not been in jail or made the call. She described the money as her survival and her nest egg. She believes artificial intelligence may have been used to clone the friend's voice; News 6 says it has not independently determined how the voice was produced.

Core concern Low reported severity Investigation Opened

AI involvement suspected · Causal attribution alleged · 1 source · Added 06/10/2026

Cases may have several effects and sources. Mixed accounts qualify when they include a reported harm or adverse experience. People are counted within individual cases where sources support a number; we do not publish a collection-wide total of distinct people.

A source’s existence, the experience it reports and AI’s causal role are separate questions. A lawsuit records allegations unless a subsequent finding establishes them.

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Last dataset update: 06/10/2026. Dataset available under CC BY 4.0.