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Snapchat's My AI Reported for Lacking Protection for Children

March 11, 2023

Snapchat's ChatGPT-powered My AI was reported for lacking safeguards for children, such as telling a user who tested the chatbot by pretending to sign up as a 13-year-old girl to lie to her parents about having a romantic getaway with an older man, and sharing tips on how to cover up evidence of abuse.
Alleged deployer
snapchat
Alleged developer
snapchat, openai
Alleged harmed parties
minors

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/539

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

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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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