AI-Generated Reading Summaries on Fable App Reportedly Wrote Biased and Offensive Commentary
December 29, 2024
Fable, a book-focused social app, used OpenAI’s API to generate AI-powered year-end reading summaries in December 2024. These summaries allegedly produced biased and offensive remarks about race, gender, and sexual orientation. Fable is reported to have apologized in a social media post on January 1, 2025.
- Alleged deployer
- fable
- Alleged developer
- openai, fable
- Alleged harmed parties
- fable-users, fable
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/882
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.
Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide
We use weekly snapshots of the AIID for stable reference. For the official suggested citation of a specific incident, use the “Cite this incident” link on each incident page.