Facebook's Year-in-Review Algorithm: Showcasing Unwanted Memories - Harm Prevention in AI Incident

December 9, 2014

An incident involving Facebook’s ‘Year in Review’ algorithm highlighted painful and unwanted memories to users, including the death of a family member. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help prevent such incidents? JOIN US
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facebook
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facebook
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facebook-users-having-posts-about-painful-events, facebook-users

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/326

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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