Apple Devices Mistook Skiing Activities, Dialed False Distress Emergency Calls
Nov 15, 2022
Apple devices of skiers and snowboarders reportedly misclassified winter activities as accidents, which resulted in numerous false inadverte...
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Data source & citationMeta AI's Scientific Paper Generator Reportedly Produced Inaccurate and Harmful Content
Nov 15, 2022
Meta AI trained and hosted a scientific paper generator that sometimes produced bad science and prohibited queries on topics and groups that...
Read moreCNET's Published AI-Written Articles Ran into Quality and Accuracy Issues
Nov 11, 2022
AI-written articles published by CNET reportedly contained factual errors which bypassed human editorial review, prompting the company to is...
Read moreCustomer Overcharged Due to Air Canada Chatbot's False Discount Claims
Nov 11, 2022
Air Canada was ordered to pay over $600 in damages for providing inaccurate bereavement discount information via its chatbot, leading to a c...
Read moreArticle-Writing AI by CNET Allegedly Committed Plagiarism
Nov 11, 2022
CNET's use of generative AI to write articles allegedly ran into plagiarism issues, reproducing verbatim phrases from other published source...
Read moreKFC Sent Insensitive Kristallnacht Promotion via Holiday Detection System
Nov 9, 2022
KFC cited an error in an automated holiday detection system which identified the anniversary of Kristallnacht and prompted an insensitive pu...
Read moreStable Diffusion's Training Data Contained Copyrighted Images
Oct 16, 2022
Stability AI reportedly scraped copyrighted images by Getty Images to be used as training data for Stable Diffusion model.
Read moreWeibo Model Had Difficulty Detecting Shifts in Censored Speech
Oct 11, 2022
Weibo's user moderation model is having difficulty keeping up with shifting user slang in defiance of Chinese state censors.
Read moreGoogle Home Mini Speaker Reportedly Read N-Word in Song Title Aloud
Oct 4, 2022
Google Home Mini speaker was reported by users for announcing aloud the previously-censored n-word in a song title.
Read moreCanadian Police's Release of Suspect's AI-Generated Facial Photo Reportedly Reinforced Racial Profiling
Oct 4, 2022
The Edmonton Police Service (EPS) in Canada released a facial image of a Black male suspect generated by an algorithm using DNA phenotyping,...
Read moreGlovo Driver in Italy Fired via Automated Email after Being Killed in Accident
Oct 3, 2022
Delivery company Glovo's automated system sent an email terminating an employee for "non-compliance terms and conditions" after the employee...
Read moreXPeng P7 Crashed into Truck in Shangdong While on Automatic Navigation Assisted Driving
Sep 23, 2022
An XPeng P7 was operating on Navigation Guided Pilot (NGP) mode automatic navigation assisted driving system as it collided with a truck on...
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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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