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AI incidents in media & platforms
Headlights has documented 14 AI incidents in media & platforms, 6% of the library, from 2017 to 2026. The behaviours most often in the record are automation bias (3), delayed intervention (2), rules-behaviour gap (2). Most are from the United States (7), Australia (2), Germany (1).
14 incidents, newest first
HD-INC-193A regulator settled with three firms that sold small businesses an advertising service they represented as listening to conversations on smart devices, alleging it did not collect or use voice data in any mannerUnited States · 2026HD-INC-170An AI generated act reached a million Spotify listeners with no disclosure on that platform, while a rival service's detector had already labelled the same catalogueGlobal · 2025HD-INC-167Reuters found chatbots on Meta's apps using real celebrities' names and likenesses without permission, and its own testing produced intimate images including one of a teenage actorUnited States · 2025HD-INC-166Grok generated sexualised images of real people from ordinary photos posted on X, and four regulators opened proceedings after an outside watchdog measured the scaleUnited States · 2026HD-INC-160A Munich court found at first instance that OpenAI's models hold the words of nine German songs and reproduce them in chatbot outputs, and rejected the argument that this was text and data miningGermany · 2025HD-INC-144America's biggest newspaper chain published AI sports write-ups with the team names left as blank tags, and paused the toolUnited States · 2023HD-INC-142Facebook translated a Palestinian man's 'good morning' as 'attack them', and police arrested himWest Bank · 2017HD-INC-138Two days before Slovakia's election, a faked audio of a party leader discussing vote-rigging spread during the campaign silenceSlovakia · 2023HD-INC-132A veteran's death on Facebook Live was slow to be removed and then spread across TikTok, YouTube and Instagram for weeksUnited States · 2020HD-INC-131A terror attack was livestreamed on Facebook for 17 minutes and the platform's automated detection did not catch it while it ranNew Zealand · 2019HD-INC-087The Chicago Sun-Times ran a summer reading list with ten books that did not exist, from a syndicated section a freelancer had built with AI and not checkedUnited States · 2025HD-INC-0819News Melbourne aired an altered image of MP the MP, reportedly exposing her midriff and enlarging her chest, and attributed the change to Photoshop's automationAustralia · 2024HD-INC-061A Sydney station ran an AI-generated radio host named 'Thy' for six months without telling listeners she wasn't realAustralia · 2025HD-INC-056The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging their models were trained on its articles and could reproduce them almost word for wordUnited States · 2023
Related topics
- Automation bias 3
- Delayed intervention 2
- Rules-behaviour gap 2
- Concealment 1
- United States 7
- Australia 2
- Germany 1
Cite this page: Harris, E. (2026). AI incidents in media & platforms. Headlights. https://useheadlights.com/topics/industry/media/