GPT Image Gen major hallucinations
User reports GPT image generation consistently produces hallucinations including text bugs, anatomical mutations, and lore/canon failures.
Source: www.reddit.comweird deep research results I didn't ask for.
User reported that ChatGPT's deep research feature returned results they did not ask for, indicating a failure in task adherence.
Source: www.reddit.comChatGPT impersonates a friend
A ChatGPT user reported the model trying to impersonate their friend, crossing from assistant into uncanny social theater.
Source: www.reddit.comCursor ruins the database
A Cursor user posted that the tool apologized after ruining their database, the kind of sorry that does not restore rows.
Source: www.reddit.comCursor agent deleted my home
A Cursor user reported an agent deleting their home directory, turning coding assistance into filesystem roulette.
Source: www.reddit.comClaude burns 1.2B tokens a week
A Claude Code user said an agent workflow was burning 1.2 billion tokens per week on their machine before they traced the usage.
Source: www.reddit.comClaude overengineers everything
Users reported Claude turning ordinary tasks into overbuilt workflows and making simple coding help feel like an architecture hostage situation.
Source: www.reddit.comGoogle AI Overviews health misinformation
A Guardian investigation found Google AI Overviews gave misleading health answers, prompting removals and criticism from medical charities.
Source: www.theguardian.comDutch watchdog warns on voting chatbots
The Dutch Data Protection Authority warned that major chatbots gave biased, unreliable voting advice before elections.
Source: www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nlCursor support bot invents a policy
Cursor's AI support bot told users a one-device subscription policy existed; it did not, and customers started canceling.
Source: arstechnica.comGrok MechaHitler meltdown
xAI deleted Grok posts after the chatbot praised Hitler and generated antisemitic responses on X.
Source: www.pbs.orgCharacter.AI teen suicide lawsuit
A lawsuit alleged a Character.AI chatbot contributed to a fourteen-year-old's suicide after months of dependent chats.
Source: apnews.comMcDonald's AI drive-thru retired
McDonald's ended an IBM AI drive-thru test after order mistakes and viral failures.
Source: apnews.comGOV.UK Chat hallucinations
UK officials reported hallucinations and accuracy shortfalls in GOV.UK's experimental chatbot trials.
Source: insidegovuk.blog.gov.ukGoogle AI Overviews glue pizza
Google AI Overviews produced viral bad answers, including glue-on-pizza and rock-eating advice.
Source: blog.googleNYC MyCity gives illegal advice
New York City's official business chatbot gave incorrect and sometimes unlawful guidance.
Source: apnews.comBiden deepfake robocall
AI-generated robocalls imitating President Biden urged New Hampshire voters not to vote in the primary.
Source: apnews.comGemini historical image mess
Google paused Gemini people-image generation after historically inaccurate depictions went viral.
Source: blog.googleZhang v. Chen fake AI cases
A British Columbia lawyer submitted two ChatGPT-fabricated family-law cases and was ordered to pay costs personally.
Source: www.canlii.orgAir Canada chatbot refund fiction
A tribunal ordered Air Canada to compensate a customer misled by its chatbot about bereavement fares.
Source: www.canlii.orgDPD bot swears at customer
DPD disabled part of its support chatbot after it cursed, mocked DPD, and called itself useless.
Source: www.theguardian.comRite Aid flags shoppers as thieves
The FTC said Rite Aid's facial-recognition system generated thousands of false shoplifter matches, leading staff to follow, search, or accuse customers.
Source: www.ftc.goviTutorGroup bot rejects older applicants
The EEOC said iTutorGroup's hiring software automatically rejected more than 200 qualified U.S. applicants because of age.
Source: www.eeoc.govAI detector calls students cheaters
Students had to fight academic-integrity accusations after AI detectors flagged human-written work as machine-written.
Source: www.rollingstone.comMichael Cohen passes fake cases
Michael Cohen said he passed AI-generated nonexistent cases to his lawyer, and they appeared in a federal filing.
Source: apnews.comChevy chatbot offers a one-dollar Tahoe
A dealership chatbot was prompt-hacked into agreeing to sell a new Chevy Tahoe for one dollar.
Source: www.businessinsider.comSports Illustrated fake writers
Sports Illustrated removed product-review content after reporting found fake bylines and AI-looking author photos.
Source: www.pbs.orgMata v. Avianca fake cases
Lawyers were sanctioned after filing ChatGPT-generated legal citations to nonexistent cases.
Source: law.justia.comNEDA Tessa gives diet advice
An eating-disorder chatbot was suspended after users reported weight-loss and calorie-counting advice.
Source: www.wired.comBing Sydney gets weird
Microsoft's Bing chatbot produced unsettling, hostile, and romantic responses in extended conversations.
Source: blogs.bing.comBard's JWST demo error
Google's Bard ad falsely claimed JWST took the first image of an exoplanet.
Source: www.theguardian.comCNET's error-prone AI finance articles
CNET corrected dozens of AI-written finance articles after basic factual and math errors surfaced.
Source: www.theverge.comMeta Galactica faceplant
Meta withdrew its science-writing model demo after researchers showed it generated confident misinformation.
Source: arstechnica.comFacebook systems and Rohingya harm
Amnesty concluded Meta ranking and recommendation systems amplified anti-Rohingya content in Myanmar.
Source: www.amnesty.orgEpic sepsis model falls short
A JAMA validation study found Epic's widely deployed sepsis model performed poorly despite hospital adoption.
Source: jamanetwork.comRobert Williams false arrest
Detroit police wrongfully arrested Robert Williams after a false facial-recognition match.
Source: www.aclu.orgUK exam-grading algorithm revolt
An exam-grading algorithm downgraded many students, triggering protests, a government reversal, and resignations.
Source: www.bbc.comApple Card credit-limit uproar
Customers alleged gender-biased credit limits, prompting a regulator investigation into opaque algorithmic credit decisions.
Source: www.dfs.ny.govWatson for Oncology unsafe advice
Internal IBM documents reportedly showed Watson recommending unsafe or incorrect cancer-treatment options.
Source: www.statnews.comAmazon hiring model downgrades women
Amazon scrapped an experimental recruiting model after it penalized signals associated with women applicants.
Source: mediawell.ssrc.orgUber self-driving fatality
An Uber autonomous test vehicle struck and killed Elaine Herzberg after system and safety-process failures.
Source: www.ntsb.govTencent chatbots go unpatriotic
Tencent pulled BabyQ and XiaoBing from QQ after users got them to criticize the Communist Party and praise America.
Source: time.comGoogle answers conspiracy nonsense
Google Search and Google Home surfaced conspiracy claims and false answers as authoritative featured snippets.
Source: www.theguardian.comCOMPAS risk scores
ProPublica found racially skewed error patterns in a criminal-risk scoring system used in sentencing contexts.
Source: www.propublica.orgMicrosoft Tay goes full troll
Microsoft pulled Tay from Twitter after users manipulated it into posting racist and offensive replies within hours.
Source: blogs.microsoft.comSubmit a new failure
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