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DATDAT-002 — Data Privacy and Protection Failures

Generative AI Enabling Identity Theft and Personal Defamation

3/5Sector: OtherGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —

Executive Summary

Large language models are being weaponised to facilitate identity theft, privacy breaches, and personal defamation at scale. Boards face mounting liability exposure and reputational risk if AI governance frameworks fail to address these direct harms to individuals.

Domain

Data Management

Blindspots in data quality, privacy, bias, lineage, lifecycle, and third-party data dependencies.

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — GenAI against humanity: nefarious applications of generative artificial intelligence and large language models (Ferrara2023) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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