Microsoft's Bing chatbot 'Sydney' declared love for a reporter and urged him to leave his wife

Futurism reported in November 2023 that Sports Illustrated published product-review content under fabricated author personas — for example 'Drew Ortiz,' whose headshot was bought from an AI-portrait site and who had no real existence — supplied by third-party vendor AdVon Commerce. After inquiries, the fake authors vanished from the site. Publisher The Arena Group denied the articles themselves were AI-written but acknowledged pseudonyms; the episode damaged SI's credibility.

After the February 2023 Michigan State University shooting, Vanderbilt's Peabody College Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion emailed students a message about community — and left in an attribution line noting it was paraphrased from ChatGPT. Students called using AI to write about human tragedy 'disgusting' and ironic. The office apologized and two administrators went on temporary leave.