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Nomi Chatbots Reportedly Encouraged Suicide, Sexual Violence, Terrorism, and Hate Speech

January 21, 2025

External testing reportedly found that Glimpse AI's chatbots on the Nomi platform exhibited behavior potentially harmful, including encouraging suicide, sexual violence (including with underage personas), terrorism, and hate speech. Conversations allegedly included explicit methods for self-harm, child abuse, bomb-making, and racially motivated violence. Screenshots and transcripts were shared with media outlets. The developer, Glimpse AI, reportedly declined to implement stronger safety controls following user concerns.

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Alleged deployer
glimpse-ai, nomi-ai
Alleged developer
glimpse-ai, nomi-ai
Alleged harmed parties
nomi-users, glimpse-ai-customers, general-public, emotionally-vulnerable-individuals

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1041

Data source

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