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
OpenAI
December 2024 · Italy
Italy fines OpenAI €15 million over ChatGPT data processing
Italy's Garante found OpenAI processed personal data to train ChatGPT without an adequate legal basis, failed to notify a breach and lacked age verification.
€15M fine plus a six-month public awareness campaign
Clearview AI
September 2024 · Netherlands
Clearview AI: €30.5M Dutch fine for its facial recognition database
The Dutch DPA fined Clearview AI €30.5M for building a biometric database from 30+ billion photos scraped from the internet.
€30.5M fine and a cease order backed by further penalties
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