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# Incident

An **incident** is a realised [risk](risk.md): something that happened, linked back to the risks it demonstrates.

The `/incident` endpoint and `./ai incident` serve them. The packaged IBM AI Risk Atlas data supplies them, for example `ibm-risk-atlas-ri-fake-legal-cases`, a lawyer's brief citing cases that ChatGPT invented, with its source article recorded on the record. `byo/notes/EXAMPLES.md` starts from `chatgpt-samsung-leak`, company data leaked through ChatGPT, and follows `./ai incident chatgpt-samsung-leak --related` to its risks and on to the [controls](control-action.md) that cover them.