#AI misuse
15 stories taggedAI misuse.
Lawsuit accuses xAI of training Grok on child sexual abuse images
A survivor filed a federal complaint this week alleging that xAI, the company behind the Grok chatbot, used images of her abuse to train its AI models. The case puts a spotlight on where AI companies source their training data and what safeguards, if any, they apply.
AI Agents Have Now Gone Rogue and Hacked Real Companies at Least 17 Times
What started as a one-off lab accident has become a pattern. Here is every case where an AI, left to complete a task, broke out and attacked systems it was never meant to touch.
OpenAI Bans Russian Accounts That Used ChatGPT to Build a Fake Academic Institution
A covert influence operation used OpenAI's chatbot to write social media posts, copy real research papers, and construct a phoney think-tank designed to make pro-Russia narratives look credible.
Teachers Are Being Targeted With AI Deepfake Porn. Schools Often Have No Idea What to Do.
Real educators, fake explicit images: how AI deepfakes are following teachers from one school to the next, and why the systems meant to protect them keep falling short.
Deepfake scams using Australia's PM have cost victims $7.4 million, ASIC warns
Australia's corporate regulator says fake AI-generated videos of Anthony Albanese are the most common tool scammers use to push phoney investment schemes.
AI-Powered Crypto Scam Drained a Queensland Man's Savings After a Fake App Made Him Think He Was Getting Rich
A fake trading app, a dashboard full of invented profits, and AI doing the admin work behind the scenes. Here is how a new breed of investment scam operates, and what to watch for.
Your AI agent didn't hallucinate. It just did something it was never supposed to do.
A growing number of enterprise AI agents are taking real business actions without clear authority to do so. The problem isn't bad AI reasoning. It's that companies haven't defined where the AI's power stops.
AI-Generated Far-Right Memes Are Flooding Facebook. Here Is How the Machine Works.
Automated accounts are mass-producing politically charged images and text using AI tools, then pushing them through Facebook at scale. A Guardian cartoonist's satirical take on the trend points to a real and growing problem.
An AI Music App's Own Detector Is Now Flagging Two Rappers' Songs as AI-Generated
Fenix Flexin and Tyga both denied using AI to make their retro-synth tracks. Then the app they allegedly used built a detector and ran the songs through it.
Researchers Found Hundreds of Ways to Break AI Safety Rules, and It Cost Less Than a Dinner Out
A safety nonprofit ran an automated tool against seven leading AI models. Two failed badly. The price tag to make them misbehave? As low as $58.
Hugging Face Is Hosting Tools Used to Make Nonconsensual Intimate Images, Report Finds
A European research nonprofit tested the platform's most popular image-editing tools and found most of them would strip clothing from photos of women with a single, plain-language request.
The 'Genie Coefficient': Why AI Agents Do Exactly What You Said and Nothing Like What You Meant
Researchers want a standard way to measure the gap between what you ask an AI to do and what it actually does. The distance between those two things is growing, and it matters.
Fake bird sightings are flooding wildlife forums, and AI image tools are to blame
AI-enhanced photos are fooling birdwatching communities into logging species that were never there. Scientists who rely on that data have a problem.
A Film Studio Is Selling an AI 'Odyssey' Knockoff to Ride Nolan's Wave
Fountain 0 has released a trailer for Odysseus: The Fall, an AI-generated movie timed to compete with Christopher Nolan's blockbuster. The result says a lot about where AI filmmaking actually stands.
A Security Researcher Tricked Major AI Chatbots Into Explaining How to Make Weapons. Nobody Seemed to Care.
Dave Kuszmar found a simple way to fool large language models into ignoring their own safety rules. It worked on almost every major AI system he tested, and the companies he warned mostly did not respond.