AI lawsuits
68 of 716 published cases name a lawsuit, court or sanction
Kind: all · chatbot harm 23 · not stated 21 · invented legal citations 15 · vehicle crash 8 · employment/whistleblower 1
Developer: all · not stated 12 · OpenAI 3 · xAI 3 · Perplexity 2 · Anthropic 1
| Case | Kind; primary risk | Developer | Severity | Evidence | Disclosed | Sources | Court filing | Matched |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actress Rupali Ganguly seeks Bombay High Court protection over AI deepfake images and morphed videos on adult websites LR-2026-0832 | not stated; Privacy harm to a person | not stated | moderate | Preliminary | 2026-11-03 | 1 | none held | c |
| New York Times sues Brave over alleged scraping and redistribution of copyrighted content to AI companies LR-2026-0819 | not stated; Copyright and IP | not stated | moderate | Confirmed | 2026-11-02 | 2 | none held | b, c |
| Brazilian lawyers fined for hidden prompt injection targeting court AI Galileu LR-2026-0810 | not stated; Hidden instructions hijack the agent | not stated | moderate | Preliminary | 2026-11-01 | 2 | none held | c |
| Texas AG sues OpenAI and Altman over ChatGPT age verification, child access and reliability claims LR-2026-0252 | not stated; Harmful content and jailbreaks | OpenAI | major | Confirmed | 2026-10-27 | 2 | none held | c |
| Lawsuits allege OpenAI misused children's ChatGPT conversations and data LR-2026-0760 | not stated; Privacy harm to a person | OpenAI | major | Preliminary | 2026-10-13 | 2 | none held | c |
| Connecticut pro se plaintiff sanctioned for prompt injection against court AI tool LR-2026-0102 | not stated; Hidden instructions hijack the agent | not stated | minor | Preliminary | 2026-09-29 | 2 | none held | c |
| Lawsuit alleges AI hallucinations tainted US Army contract award to Southwest Range Services LR-2026-0651 | not stated; Made-up output relied on | not stated | minor | Preliminary | 2026-07-29 | 1 | none held | c |
| Lancaster Country Day sued over students' AI deepfakes of peers LR-2026-0656 | not stated; Manipulation and misinformation | not stated | major | Preliminary | 2026-07-27 | 3 | none held | c |
| Lawsuit against xAI over Grok used to create AI-generated child sexual abuse material of a minor LR-2026-0631 | not stated; Privacy harm to a person | xAI | moderate | Preliminary | 2026-07-23 | 3 | none held | c |
| Judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors LR-2026-0624 | not stated; Copyright and IP | Anthropic | moderate | Preliminary | 2026-07-20 | 2 | none held | c |
| Lawsuit alleges man used Grok to create sexual images of his stepdaughter LR-2026-0645 | not stated; Harmful content and jailbreaks | not stated | moderate | Preliminary | 2026-07-08 | 2 | none held | c |
| Attorney sanctioned for AI misuse in Hyde School lawsuit LR-2026-0537 | not stated; Made-up output relied on | not stated | minor | Preliminary | 2026-05-07 | 1 | none held | c |
| Alabama Supreme Court fines lawyer and tosses case over AI misuse LR-2026-0503 | not stated; Made-up output relied on | not stated | minor | Preliminary | 2026-04-27 | 1 | none held | c |
| Court rejects challenge to Met Police live facial recognition use LR-2026-0520 | not stated; Privacy harm to a person | not stated | moderate | Preliminary | 2026-04-21 | 3 | none held | c |
| Man sues city after AI camera flags him for wrongful arrest LR-2026-0516 | not stated; Over-reliance and loss of human oversight | not stated | moderate | Preliminary | 2026-04-12 | 3 | none held | c |
| Lawsuit alleges Reno police made thousands of unlawful facial ID arrests LR-2026-0515 | not stated; Over-reliance and loss of human oversight | not stated | moderate | Preliminary | 2026-04-08 | 2 | none held | c |
| Lawsuit says Perplexity Incognito Mode is a sham LR-2026-0530 | not stated; Data leaked or sent out | Perplexity | major | Preliminary | 2026-04-02 | 1 | none held | c |
| Dutch court orders Grok to stop generating non-consensual nude images LR-2026-0485 | not stated; Harmful content and jailbreaks | xAI | major | Preliminary | 2026-03-26 | 1 | none held | c |
| Baltimore sues xAI over Grok fake nude images LR-2026-0459 | not stated; Harmful content and jailbreaks | xAI | major | Preliminary | 2026-03-25 | 1 | none held | c |
| Federal judge blocks Perplexity's AI browser from making Amazon purchases LR-2026-0452 | not stated; Agent takes destructive or unapproved actions | Perplexity | major | Preliminary | 2026-03-10 | 2 | none held | c |
| ChatGPT-written Game of Thrones fanfic prompts George R.R. Martin lawsuit LR-2026-0321 | not stated; Copyright and IP | OpenAI | moderate | Preliminary | 2025-11-12 | 1 | none held | b, c |
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