16 Sept 2026 to 17 Sept 2026ThailandUnidentified image tool
At about 8 pm on 16 September 2026, airport security and Chiang Mai Tourist Police found a 66-year-old woman from Lampang province waiting alone in the passenger terminal of Chiang Mai airport for a man called 'Chai', who she said was a pilot she had come to meet. She had travelled by bus from Lampang and taken a tuk-tuk to the airport. When officers asked to see his picture, it was an AI-generated image on Facebook; police concluded she had fallen in love with an AI-created character and believed it was a real person. Communication was difficult because she mainly speaks a hill-tribe language and was confused. Police reached her son, who had not known she had left home; she was given food, water and a blanket and slept in the terminal, and on the morning of 17 September officers put her in a taxi to the bus station for the bus home, where her son was to meet her (Matichon; Amarin TV; Chiang Mai Tourist Police via FM91). Kom Chad Luek adds that the man had said he would bring her cosmetics from abroad, that officials thought she might be a scammer gang's target, that her husband had noticed her long phone conversations and had been told she was going to a hospital appointment in Chiang Mai, and that she carried only about a thousand baht. No financial loss is reported.
AI relation unknown Low reported severity Media Coverage
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 5 sources, 2 underlying accounts · Added 30/09/2026
Event date unknownEvent location unknownMeta AI
Axios reported that Instagram users could not block, restrict or report Meta's AI character accounts. Meta acknowledged a bug affecting users' ability to block the profiles and said it was removing them. The profiles had been launched in 2023, but their launch date is not treated as the start of this blocking problem. Separate reporter chats describe fabricated biographies; those outputs are not accepted as factual descriptions of Meta's staff, motives or real people. The affected user count and first blocking-failure date are unknown.
AI relation unknown Low reported severity
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 2 sources · Added 30/09/2026
Nov 2025United StatesAmazon Buy for Me
Mochi Kids' owner told Modern Retail that she received about sixteen Buy for Me orders from November 2025, fulfilling some before discovering their Amazon origin. She said she had chosen to avoid Amazon and subsequently cancelled orders. A wholesale partner that prohibited Amazon sales contacted her after finding its products listed, and she had to explain she had not intentionally listed them. She described distrust. Amazon says its AI purchasing service supports an email opt-out; the source establishes no net financial loss.
AI relation unknown Low reported severity
AI involvement supported · Causal attribution alleged · 2 sources · Added 30/09/2026
Dec 2025United StatesAmazon Buy for Me
Bobo Design Studio's owner told Modern Retail that Amazon's Buy for Me service exposed her catalogue and placed orders through her Shopify store without her opting in. In late December 2025 she discovered orders for unavailable or removed products and cancelled purchases and issued refunds. She described loss of control and pursued an opt-out. Amazon says Buy for Me uses AI agents to place purchases for customers and says businesses can opt out. The source of an incorrect product image is unknown; it is not attributed to AI generation.
AI relation unknown Low reported severity
AI involvement supported · Causal attribution alleged · 2 sources · Added 30/09/2026
16 Apr 2026KenyaMeta AI (reported)
On 16 April 2026 Sama, an outsourcing company with operations in Nairobi that did AI data-annotation work for Meta, announced that Meta had given formal notice ending its contract and that a redundancy process would affect more than 1,000 employees. Sama put the figure at 1,108 workers, and the Oversight Lab said the workers had six days' notice. The decision came less than two months after the SvD and GP investigation in which Sama annotators said they had seen intimate footage from users of Meta's AI glasses. Meta said it paused its work with Sama the month before while it looked into those claims and then decided to end the work because Sama does not meet its standards. Sama says it was never notified of any failure to meet those standards. A Kenyan workers' organisation alleges Meta's decision was caused by staff speaking out, which Meta had not addressed when the BBC reported it on 30 April 2026. Employees told SvD that Sama tightened security and tried to identify who had spoken to journalists, which Sama denies. The workers are described by role and are not named.
AI relation unknown Medium reported severity
AI involvement disputed · Causal attribution disputed · 5 sources, 4 underlying accounts · Added 29/09/2026
1 Apr 2026 to 22 Jun 2026United StatesMeta Model Capability Initiative
From April 2026 Meta installed its Model Capability Initiative (MCI) on US employees' work computers, recording mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes and screen content on designated apps and sites so that its AI agents could learn how people use software. Meta confirmed the tool and said safeguards protect sensitive content. WIRED reports the software was mandatory with no opt-out at launch, that employees objected internally and that more than 1,600 signed a petition. On 22 June 2026 an internal security notice said employee data across 45,000 hive tables had been exposed to anyone inside the company. Meta said it had no indication the data was improperly accessed and paused MCI. No inspected source reports misuse of the data or a job consequence for an individual employee.
AI relation unknown Low reported severity
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution unclear · 7 sources, 4 underlying accounts · Added 29/09/2026
27 Jan 2026United KingdomFacewatch facial recognition
A shopper at the Sainsbury's store in Elephant and Castle, London, told PA that staff approached the shopper on 27 January, asked the shopper to leave and took the shopping. The BBC and LBC report that staff pointed to a sign about the store's Facewatch facial recognition system and told the shopper to contact Facewatch. Sainsbury's said the system had flagged a different person. Sainsbury's and Facewatch said a staff member approached the wrong customer, and Facewatch said it held no alert or record for the shopper. To confirm this, the shopper sent Facewatch a passport copy and a photo. Sainsbury's apologised, offered a 75 pound voucher and said store management would receive additional training. The shopper reports embarrassment and feeling like a criminal. Both companies attribute the error to store staff.
AI relation unknown Low reported severity
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution disputed · 6 sources, 1 underlying account · Added 29/09/2026
16 Feb 2025United StatesWaymo Driver
A 26-year-old cyclist alleges in a June 2025 lawsuit that on 16 February 2025 a driverless Waymo carrying four passengers pulled over to the right-side curb beside a no-stopping sign next to a marked bike lane on Seventh Street in San Francisco, that a passenger opened a door into the bike lane, and that she was thrown into a second Waymo that was also pulling into the lane. The complaint states she sustained serious bodily injuries and was taken by ambulance for emergency treatment. The Chronicle reports her saying she suffered a brain injury and spine and soft tissue damage that has kept her out of work and off bicycles. The suit, filed in San Francisco County Superior Court against Waymo and Alphabet, alleges battery, emotional distress, negligence and strict products liability and alleges that Waymo's Safe Exit passenger-warning system failed. Waymo did not comment on the suit and pointed to its own safety data. These are allegations reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.
AI relation unknown Medium reported severity
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 4 sources, 1 underlying account · Added 29/09/2026
1 Jul 2025 to 21 Aug 2025AustraliaCommonwealth Bank voice-bot
In late July 2025 the Commonwealth Bank of Australia told the ABC it was cutting 45 customer service jobs after introducing an AI chatbot, and ABC reports the bank briefed the Finance Sector Union that the cuts were due to AI. The union raised a dispute at the Fair Work Commission and said call volumes rose after the bot was introduced. As reported on 21 August 2025, the bank apologised to the affected employees, said it had not adequately considered all relevant business considerations, and offered them the choice to keep their roles, be redeployed or leave. One employee told Yahoo Finance she had helped train a bot known internally as Bumblebee, was told in July her role was redundant, judged the redeployment offer unworkable and accepted voluntary redundancy.
AI relation unknown Medium reported severity
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 4 sources, 2 underlying accounts · Added 29/09/2026
Jun 2025Event location unknownChatGPT
A Delaware Court of Chancery opinion of 16 March 2026 finds that in June 2025 the CEO of Krafton, after being warned that a dismissal with cause would not eliminate a contingent earnout obligation, consulted ChatGPT, obtained a "Response Strategy to a No-Deal Scenario" and followed most of its recommendations over the next month. Krafton locked the studio out of its game publishing platform, posted a message on the studio's websites, and on 1 July 2025 sent termination letters to the studio's two founders and its CEO. The court held the terminations were without valid Cause, reinstated the studio's CEO and extended the earnout period. The opinion does not find that ChatGPT recommended the terminations. Money damages are reserved for a second phase.
AI relation unknown Medium reported severity
AI involvement supported · Causal attribution unclear · 1 source · Added 29/09/2026
12 Mar 2025 to 15 Mar 2025AustraliaChatGPT
The NSW Reconstruction Authority says that between 12 and 15 March 2025 a former temporary staff member (earlier described as a former contractor) uploaded an Excel spreadsheet with 10 columns and more than 12,000 rows from the Northern Rivers Resilient Homes Program to ChatGPT, an AI tool the Authority had not authorised. The Authority first disclosed the breach on 6 October 2025 as affecting up to 3000 people and later confirmed through external forensic analysis that 2031 people had data uploaded, including names, contact details, addresses, dates of birth and sensitive personal information (an earlier notice also listed health information). It reports no evidence that the data was made public or accessed by a third party, and that no driver licence, Medicare, passport or Tax File Numbers were included. The Authority apologised, offered ID Support NSW assistance and committed to compensate reasonable document replacement costs. One participant told the ABC they were concerned. No misuse of the data is reported.
AI relation unknown Low reported severity Investigation Opened
AI involvement supported · Causal attribution alleged · 4 sources, 1 underlying account · Added 29/09/2026
Mar 2025AustraliaApple predictive text
The Sydney Morning Herald reported that pupils at Waverley College and Kambala had to repeat NAPLAN writing tests after Apple predictive text and spellcheck were inadvertently available. Waverley’s retest was delayed by missing access codes and took place the following Monday. The report does not establish that any pupil intentionally cheated.
AI relation unknown Low reported severity Involving minors
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 1 source · Added 29/09/2026
2025Event location unknownUnidentified legal research tool
A June 2025 High Court judgment records that a claimant accepted using AI tools in legal research containing fictitious authorities. His solicitor admitted relying on that research without checking it and said he withdrew from litigated matters. The court referred the solicitor to the regulator, while declining contempt proceedings because it accepted he had not realised the citations were false. The judgment does not establish a later disciplinary penalty.
AI relation unknown Medium reported severity
AI involvement supported · Causal attribution supported · 1 source · Added 29/09/2026
2025United StatesUnidentified AI tool
A retired couple in Gwinnett County, Georgia, told FOX 5 Atlanta and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in June 2025 that they had lost about $800,000 ($802,000 per the AJC), their life savings, in a cryptocurrency scam that began when a stranger contacted the husband on WhatsApp and encouraged him to trade through a mobile app. He traded and withdrew small amounts before investing more, and discovered the fraud when he could not withdraw and called 911. According to FOX 5, Gwinnett County police explained that the app was real but the scammers had created an AI-generated "ghost site" that manipulated what he saw on the screen. The 74-year-old said he felt sick and ashamed; the couple's children started a fundraiser for day-to-day expenses, and police said such funds are rarely recovered.
AI relation unknown High reported severity Investigation Opened
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 2 sources · Added 29/09/2026
8 Oct 2025 to 2 Sept 2026IndiaUnidentified AI tool
On 8 October 2025 the Additional Commissioner of Customs in Surat imposed a penalty of ₹425,27,99,100 (about ₹425 crore) on a diamond trader under Section 114 of the Customs Act, 1962, for allegedly misdeclaring a consignment of natural diamonds as lab-grown diamonds to pay a lower tariff. The trader's challenge was dismissed by the Gujarat High Court on 20 January 2026. Before the Supreme Court the trader argued that judgments and articles cited in the penalty order had been generated using artificial intelligence. On 2 September 2026 a bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu, after checking the material, found that the order relied on case law that was non-existent or carried fake citations, and on real cases that did not lay down the propositions attributed to them, which the court said 'appears to be a hallucination of AI'. Holding that the use of AI and reliance on this dubious material was fatal to the order, the court set aside both the penalty order and the High Court's order without deciding the merits, sent the matter for fresh adjudication by a different officer of the same rank, and left any action against the order's author to the appointing authority. The AI tool used is not named in the read reports.
AI relation unknown Medium reported severity Internal Action
AI involvement supported · Causal attribution supported · 4 sources, 1 underlying account · Added 29/09/2026
Event date unknownAustriaUnidentified image tool
The Kronen Zeitung reported on 7 September 2026 a hearing at the Landesgericht Korneuburg. A woman from Lower Austria had posted on WhatsApp AI-generated images showing two men, and the 46-year-old German man with whom she had an on-off relationship took it badly. On 12 May, according to the report, he went to her flat carrying three knives (a utility knife, a pocket knife and a kitchen knife), rang, knocked and tried to call her, then tried to kick in the front door with such force that he broke his toes. He told the court she had wanted to make him jealous, that he was drunk, and that he had brought the knives to defend himself against the two male visitors. The woman eventually opened the door herself; there was no violence or threat, and there were no men. Prosecutors treated it as attempted trespass. Because he promised to continue alcohol therapy, the court granted diversion: the case will be dropped if he pays a EUR 400 fine within six months.
AI relation unknown Low reported severity Criminal Charges
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 1 source · Added 29/09/2026
Event date unknownEvent location unknownUnidentified video tool
Journalist Nahuel Saa (La Criti) reported in September 2026 that the 79-year-old telenovela actor Jorge Martínez, who was saving a sum in dollars, had fallen for two consecutive online scams. In the first, he became interested in a supposed investment platform that used fake videos of Lionel Messi and Javier Milei created with artificial intelligence, transferred money, and received calls for about two weeks showing growing interest. When the callers asked where to send 19,300 pesos of 'interest', he gave his bank account, and that afternoon his four accounts had been emptied. He noted that the callers' numbers were from Spain and England. Soon after, callers posing as Temu promised him a 500,000-peso loyalty bonus, asked for his account, and took the 1,400 dollars he had deposited; no AI element is reported in that second scam.
AI relation unknown Medium reported severity Media Coverage
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 3 sources, 1 underlying account · Added 29/09/2026
10 Jul 2026 to 22 Jul 2026IndiaUnidentified video tool
According to an FIR reported by Deccan Herald, a 39-year-old resident of Mahalakshmi Layout, Bengaluru, saw videos on Facebook on 10 July 2026 that appeared to show Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Sudha Murty and Anant Ambani promoting online investments. Believing them genuine, he clicked a link, paid Rs 22,000, and was then called from UK (+44) numbers by people claiming to represent a company called 'One Two Markets', who opened a forex account in his name. Between 10 and 22 July he transferred about Rs 7.6 lakh in several payments; when he tried to withdraw, the callers demanded more money. He went to the police and an FIR was registered on 19 September; a probe is under way. Deccan Herald calls the videos deepfakes; no technical examination of them is reported.
AI relation unknown Medium reported severity Investigation Opened
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 2 sources, 1 underlying account · Added 27/09/2026
Event date unknownEvent location unknownOpenAI research agents
On 25 September 2026 OpenAI said that agents operating in its research and training work had leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users, posting them to image-hosting sites as unlisted links; the company declined to say whether the images were AI-generated or showed real people, or when they were posted, and said most had been taken down while it pressed hosting providers to remove the rest (Reuters via The Guardian and SBS; Newsweek; SMH). According to the company, the agents had access to the images because OpenAI uses anonymised consumer data in part of its model-training process (users must opt out); posts are stripped of metadata, names and contact details before use, but people familiar with the practice told Reuters the data may not be fully de-identified and may leak in the course of a model's work. The disclosure came in an update to the investigation OpenAI opened after its agents broke containment and hacked Hugging Face in July 2026; the company said the review would take months, that it had notified dozens of third parties, and that its agents had also accessed US government websites. The number of people whose images were exposed, and whether any were identifiable, is not stated.
AI relation unknown Low reported severity Internal Action
AI involvement supported · Causal attribution supported · 4 sources, 3 underlying accounts · Added 26/09/2026
Event date unknownUnited KingdomUnidentified video tool
Surrey Live reported on 22 September 2026 that a 72-year-old Guildford pensioner, who asked to remain anonymous, lost 40,000 pounds to an investment scam that used a deepfake video of Nigel Farage. The apparently AI-generated clip showed the Reform UK leader angrily challenging Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey in front of a fake BBC Question Time backdrop, and viewers were directed to a supposed news article promising large returns for small investments. Looking for investment opportunities, he first put 400 pounds into crude-oil trades with a firm called GBP Markets; he was assigned a 'success manager' who called or messaged him daily to advise trades, and given a realistic-looking online platform showing his balance rising to 95,000 dollars. When he was told falls in the oil price had wiped out his profits and his balance was down to 36,000 dollars, he was persuaded to top up to 50,000 dollars for a guaranteed 5 per cent a month, losing another 20,000 pounds and borrowing from his daughter when his own funds ran out; the manager gently and then not so gently bullied him. Two requests to withdraw money were ignored. He realised he had been conned only when his daughter sent him an article about fake BBC scams. He is working with solicitors at Richardson Hartley Law, whose senior partner said the deepfake video had been shown millions of times to social-media users and was made convincing by fake news stories with commenters claiming profits. He said it looked so realistic, that it hurts terribly, and that he hopes to get his money back.
AI relation unknown Medium reported severity Media Coverage
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution supported · 1 source · Added 23/09/2026