That Viral 'FaceApp' Is Making Everyone Look Whiter
The viral app, FaceApp, has raised concerns about its algorithmic bias towards whitening users' faces. This incident underscores the importa...
Read moreValues Statement: We believe AI should cause no harm, but enhance the quality of human life, by proactively adopting our AI Governance framework.
Evidence-based Transparent For governance
AI Incidents
TAIM catalog Map Data source & citation Failure Files™Popular face-aging app now offers ‘Black,’ ‘Indian,’ and ‘Asian’ filters
A widely-used face-aging app has recently added filters for ethnicities such as Black, Indian, and Asian to its application. This move raise...
Read moreFaceApp Ethnicity Filters Make You Look Like a Different Race
Recent concerns have been raised about the ethnicity filters used by FaceApp, a popular photo-editing app. Critics argue that these filters...
Read moreFaceApp Introduced Blackface And Yellowface Selfie Filters, Then Removed Them A Few Hours Later
FaceApp, a popular photo editing app, introduced selfie filters that simulated blackface and yellowface, sparking immediate backlash. The fi...
Read more'Racist' FaceApp photo filters encouraged users to black up
A recent incident involving FaceApp's photo filters has raised concerns over the use of AI in a responsible manner. The filters, which disto...
Read moreWiki Bots That Feud for Years Highlight the Troubled Future of AI
Recent disputes between wiki bots, lasting for years, have underscored the complexities and potential pitfalls of AI governance. These incid...
Read moreStudy reveals bot-on-bot editing wars raging on Wikipedia's pages
A recent study sheds light on a lesser-known phenomenon occurring within Wikipedia's pages - bot-on-bot editing wars. These conflicts, drive...
Read moreInternet Bots Fight Each Other Because They're All Too Human
An examination of a recent incident where internet bots, programmed to act autonomously, entered into a conflict due to their human-like dec...
Read moreAutomated Wikipedia Edit-Bots Have Been Fighting Each Other For A Decade
Over the past decade, automated edit-bots have been deployed on Wikipedia to maintain consistency and accuracy of content. However, these bo...
Read morePeople built AI bots to improve Wikipedia. Then they started squabbling in petty edit wars, sigh
Initially designed to streamline content creation on Wikipedia, AI bots have shown potential in automating routine tasks. However, the intro...
Read moreWhat I’ve learned from Kaggle’s fisheries competition
Exploring the insights gained from participating in the Kaggle fisheries competition, emphasizing the importance of implementing safe and se...
Read moreAI still sucks at writing Christmas Carols
In the spirit of holiday cheer, we explore an interesting AI incident involving Christmas carols. Despite advancements in music generation,...
Read moreData 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.