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AI Incidents

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Amazon: 'Glitch' caused gay censorship error

A technical glitch at Amazon resulted in gay-themed content being filtered as inappropriate, raising concerns about responsible AI governanc...

Gay and Lesbian Books Lose Amazon Sales Rank For Some Reason

An intriguing and unexplained incident occurred recently where books categorized under LGBTQ+ themes experienced a significant drop in their...

Amazon criticized for deranking 'adult' books

Recent changes in Amazon's algorithm have raised concerns about potential censorship of adult books. The shift has resulted in these titles...

Why We’re Not Buying Amazon’s Gay Book ‘Glitch’

The recent incident involving Amazon's recommendation system, which suggested a gay book as 'gay and lesbian' to customers, has sparked cont...

Sales rank purged from Amazon

In an attempt to prevent manipulation of the marketplace, Amazon has reportedly stopped providing sales rank data for certain products. This...

Amazon.com says it has fixed error that removed gay, lesbian sales rankings

In a recent incident, Amazon acknowledged an error that had temporarily removed the sales rankings of certain products related to gay and le...

Amazon Censors Its Rankings & Search Results to Protect Us Against GLBT Books

In an effort to ensure a safe and secure online environment, Amazon has been reportedly manipulating search results and product rankings to...

When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind

In a case highlighting the importance of AI governance, Google's photo-organizing AI software failed to correctly identify gorillas in a use...

Google Photos app tags black Jacky Alcine and friend as GORILLAS

Recently, Google's Photo application incorrectly tagged two black individuals as 'gorillas'. The incident highlights the biases and potentia...

Google Photos Tags Two African-Americans As Gorillas Through Facial Recognition Software

Google's facial recognition software, used in its photo-organizing app Google Photos, misidentified two African-American individuals as gori...

Google apologizes after app mistakenly labels black people 'gorillas'

Google has issued a formal apology following an incident where its image recognition app misclassified black people as gorillas. The error,...

Google Photos tags black people as 'gorillas', puts pictures in special folder

In an incident demonstrating the need for robust AI governance, Google's Photo application inadvertently labeled several photos of black ind...

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.