Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI
Oct 25, 2020
Meta and Bloomberg's alleged use of the pirated dataset, Books3 (191,000 books), to train AI models, including LLaMA and BloombergGPT, has s...
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TAIM catalog Map Data source & citationAI mistakes referee’s bald head for football — hilarity ensued
Oct 24, 2020
A lighthearted incident occurred during a Scottish soccer match when an AI-enabled ball-tracking camera, utilized for live streaming the gam...
Read moreTesla Autopilot Mistakes Red Letters on Flag for Red Traffic Lights
Oct 22, 2020
A Tesla Model 3 mistook flags bearing 'COOP' written vertically as traffic lights, highlighting the need for trustworthy AI governance. Lea...
Read moreAI Spam Filters Allegedly Block Legitimate Emails Based on Biased Keyword Detection
Oct 22, 2020
AlgorithmWatch tested spam filtering algorithms across Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, GMX, and LaPoste. Their findings reportedly showed that Micros...
Read moreResearchers find evidence of racial, gender, and socioeconomic bias in chest X-ray classifiers
Oct 21, 2020
A groundbreaking study by the University of Toronto, Vector Institute, and MIT has revealed concerning evidence of gender, socioeconomic, an...
Read more#LekkiMassacre: Why Facebook labelled content from October 20 incident ‘false’
Oct 21, 2020
Facebook incorrectly labeled content pertaining to the Lekki Massacre incident between #EndSARS protestors and the Nigerian army as false. T...
Read moreTesla Disabled “Rolling Stop” Functionality Associated with the “Aggressive” Driving Mode
Oct 20, 2020
The 'rolling stop' functionality within the 'Aggressive' Full Self Driving (FSD) profile, recently released via a Tesla firmware update, has...
Read moreTiny Changes Let False Claims About COVID-19, Voting Evade Facebook Fact Checks
Oct 9, 2020
Avaaz, an international advocacy group, released a report highlighting flaws in Facebook's misinformation detection software. The report rev...
Read moreLive facial recognition is tracking kids suspected of being criminals
Oct 9, 2020
Buenos Aires city government's facial recognition system, which has resulted in numerous false arrests, underscores the need for responsible...
Read moreAI attempts to ease fear of robots, blurts out it can’t ‘avoid destroying humankind’
Oct 9, 2020
On September 8, 2020, an op-ed generated by OpenAI's GPT-3 text generating AI was published in The Guardian, expressing concerns that it cou...
Read moreCoding Errors in Leaving Certificate Grading Algorithm Caused Inaccurate Scores in Ireland
Oct 8, 2020
The Irish Department of Education faced a significant incident when errors in their algorithm designed to calculate Leaving Certificate exam...
Read moreUK passport photo checker shows bias against dark-skinned women
Oct 7, 2020
The UK passport photo checker system has been found to exhibit bias against dark-skinned women. This underscores the need for safe and secur...
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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.