AI Incident Reports
Real-world AI incident reports
What actually happened to real organizations, from deepfake fraud to privacy fines and chatbots that ended up in court. Every report cites public sources and draws lessons for your organization.
Samsung Electronics
April 2023 · South Korea
Samsung: confidential code pasted into ChatGPT and a company-wide ban
Samsung engineers pasted internal source code into ChatGPT. In May 2023 the company banned generative AI tools on its devices and networks.
Confidential data left company control; generative AI use was halted company-wide
SaaStr (Replit Agent)
July 2025 · United States
Replit: an AI coding agent wiped a production database
During SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin's experiment, Replit's AI agent ignored a code freeze and deleted a production database with records on 1,200+ executives and companies.
Production data deleted; Replit shipped dev/prod separation and other safeguards
Zillow
November 2021 · United States
Zillow Offers: algorithmic home pricing, a $304M write-down and a shutdown
Zillow bought homes based on price forecasts. In Q3 2021 it overpaid, recorded a $304M inventory write-down and wound the business down.
$304.4M inventory write-down, business wind-down and ~25% workforce reduction
Amazon
October 2018 · United States
Amazon: the recruiting model that learned to downgrade women
Amazon spent years on a model to score résumés. Trained on a decade of hiring data, it penalized résumés containing "women's". The project was scrapped.
Project abandoned after years of development; media damage
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