When AI systems cause real-world harm.

This content is based on victim and potential victim accounts. Government agencies and legitimate business names and phone numbers are often used by scam artists to take advantage of people. Description The scam showed Anderson Cooper tal ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1564#7482)

A social media scam is using deepfakes of celebrities to promote products they falsely claim could cure Alzheimer's disease and dementia, the Better Business Bureau warned. Some victims they even found reoccurring charges after buying the h ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1564#7483)

AIID editor's note: Please see the original source for the full report and all of its findings. Over the past year, a team of GPTZero investigators has used our Hallucination Check tool to uncover hallucinated citations in government repor ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1563#7481)

The Navy stopped a maritime drone test early and urgently requested support from the Coast Guard and local harbor patrol agents to help rescue a participating tugboat captain from waters off the California coast last week, multiple sources ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1561#7459)

AI-powered software has allowed gas station operators across California to illegally collude and drive up prices at the pump, according to a federal lawsuit. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed Monday, accuses gas station giants inclu ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7460)

Artificial intelligence is costing motorists in California more money at the gas pump, according to a new lawsuit. The lawsuit claims companies in the state are using data collected by AI to manipulate gas prices. Companies mentioned in th ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7461)

Gasoline prices have soared nationwide since the U.S. launched a war on Iran, but they remain far higher in California than other states, a dollar or more per gallon. And one reason they're not falling, according to a newly filed lawsuit, i ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7462)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) --- Three Californians filed a class action over what they call an artificial intelligence-based pricing system that has wrung more money out of drivers in a time of explosive gas prices. The plaintiffs sued Knowled ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7463)

The proposed class argues that California's fuel prices are high due to an illegal algorithmic price-fixing scheme orchestrated by an algorithmic pricing company and the largest fuel retailers. AI software used by gas stations across Calif ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7464)

Topline A new lawsuit accuses a slew of gas station owners in California, including Walmart, Speedway and Albertsons, of using an AI tool developed by a company called Kalibrate to artificially inflate prices at the pump---causing prices t ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7465)

California drivers have filed a proposed class action against BP, Marathon, Walmart, and other major gas station operators, alleging they used an artificial intelligence pricing tool to fix pump prices across the state, according to Reuters ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7466)

Gas station operators in California are being accused of colluding to keep fuel prices artificially high. The alleged culprit? A piece of software that uses AI to collect and compare non-public pricing and sales figures from participating s ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7467)

Californians pay the highest gas prices in the U.S., and a proposed class action says that the issue has been exacerbated by an AI tool that smartly squeezes customers for the best profits. A newly filed lawsuit at the Sacramento, ​Californ ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7468)

Dive Brief: Several California residents have sued 7-Eleven, Circle K, BP and other retailers for allegedly using an AI-powered fuel pricing algorithm to increase gas prices in the state, according to a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District C ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7469)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. --- Gas station operators including bp, Circle K, Marathon Petroleum, 7-Eleven, Walmart and Albertsons face a proposed class action lawsuit from California drivers accusing them of using AI to boost fuel prices. Accordin ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7470)

AIID editor's note: Please visit the original source for the full article. A group of California consumers filed a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that gas station operators including Walmart, Marathon Petroleum, BP and 7-Eleven use ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7471)

AIID editor's note: Please visit the original source for the full article. By Bryan Koenig (June 22, 2026, 7:22 PM EDT) -- Consumers sought Monday to widen the campaign against alleged algorithmic price fixing, in a proposed class action a ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7472)

AIID editor's note: Please visit the original source for the full article. A group of California motorists has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that several major fuel retailers and an energy pricing software provider used ar ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7473)

Three California residents filed a federal class action lawsuit on June 22, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California against Knowledge Support Systems, d/b/a Kalibrate, along with 14 of the largest gas station ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7474)

Gas station operators across California used an AI-powered software system to illegally coordinate pricing and drive up fuel costs, according to a federal lawsuit filed Monday. Driving the news: The proposed class-action suit accuses major ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7475)

Three California residents are suing a fuel pricing company and several gas station operators, alleging that they use artificial intelligence-based pricing systems to raise gasoline prices in an uncompetitive manner. "Californians are bei ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7476)

California is famous for plenty of things, but few grate quite like its fuel prices, which already rank among the steepest in the nation. As of today, regular runs $5.56, mid-grade $5.788, and premium $5.95. Now a group of residents claims ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7477)

A class-action filed in Sacramento federal court names BP, Marathon, 7-Eleven, Walmart and Albertsons, alleging their shared use of Kalibrate Fuel Systems' pricing algorithm inflated California gas prices by as much as 22 cents a gallon. C ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7478)

A new federal lawsuit alleges that gas station companies across California are engaged in an illegal conspiracy, powered by AI software, to raise prices. The class action lawsuit claims the corporate owners of over 1,700 California gas sta ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7479)

On the heels of filing a landmark federal lawsuit against social media and tech giants, Bucks County District Attorney Joe Khan today announced the arrest of a New Britain Borough man facing multiple felony charges for producing and possess ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1562#7480)

April 21 (Reuters) - Sullivan & Cromwell, a premier Wall Street law firm, apologized to a federal ‌judge for submitting a court filing with inaccurate citations and other errors generated by artificial intelligence. In a letter dated April ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1558#7456)

June 22 (Reuters) - Gas station operators ‌including BP (BP.L), opens new tab, Circle K (ATD.TO), opens new tab, Marathon Petroleum (MPC.N), opens new tab, 7-Eleven (3382.T), opens new tab, Walmart (WMT.O), opens new tab and Albertsons (ACI ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1559#7457)

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LONDON, June 5 (Reuters) - Last Christmas Eve, NewsBreak, opens new tab, a free app with roots in China that is the most downloaded news app in the United States, published an alarming piece about a small town shooting. It was headlined "Ch ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1554#7451)

A partner at Boies Schiller Flexner is seeking to file a corrected brief in litigation against the Church of Scientology after taking responsibility for "material citation errors" that it contained. In a Sept. 19 declaration, partner John ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1555#7453)

An X user managed to trick AI chatbot Grok into sending around $200,000 worth of crypto after exploiting its link with an automated trading bot. The incident involved Grok and 'Bankrbot', two AI systems with wallet access, which were manip ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1556#7454)

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Jonathan Rinaldi has been charged with forgery and criminal possession of a forged instrument for allegedly creating and distributing false political endorsements and fake news articles u ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1557#7455)

AUGUSTA --- A Belfast man who killed his wife and assaulted his mother with a fire poker in Readfield was deemed not criminally responsible for those acts Thursday. He was ordered held by the state in a psychiatric hospital over the objecti ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1491#7440)

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. --- A couple in St. Petersburg is scammed out of nearly two thousand dollars in bogus vet bills. They say they fell for it because the scammers took pictures of a lost dog posted online and sent the couple an AI-genera ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1477#7441)

Much of the public debate around generative AI has focused on human-centered content: political deepfakes, manipulated speeches, fabricated celebrity videos, and non-consensual intimate imagery. This focus is justified given the scale, seve ... (report_number: 7442)

GLENDALE, AZ (AZFamily) --- An AI system used to read graduate names at Glendale Community College's commencement ceremony malfunctioned, leaving students and families frustrated. The names being read during GCC's commencement didn't appea ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1503#7443)

The Sixth Circuit finally weighed in on the use of fake cases hallucinated by artificial intelligence. A panel recently sanctioned two Tennessee attorneys for a smorgasbord of misconduct during merits briefing, including citing fake cases. ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1447#7444)

The Sixth Circuit's recent decision in Whiting v. City of Athens, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 7479, is a significant ruling addressing attorney misconduct, particularly the submission of fabricated legal citations and misrepresentations in appella ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1447#7445)

Executive Summary: ‍ A video circulating on social media falsely claims that India's Finance Minister, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, has endorsed an investment platform promising unusually high returns. Upon investigation, it was confirmed tha ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1553#7446)

The Fifth Circuit recently issued a sharp warning to lawyers who use generative AI in federal appellate practice. In Fletcher v. Experian Information Solutions, Inc. (opinion below), the court sanctioned appellate counsel after finding that ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1453#7447)