AI errors
7 incidentsRelated#Politics#Deepfakes#Misinformation
Misbehavior · futurism.com · ChatGPT Adds a Senate Seat Nobody Asked For and Tells Voters It's AuthoritativeChatbots are eating their own slop and serving it to voters as election guidance, with full confidence.
Harmful deployment · Serious · 2 sources · Facial Recognition Keeps Catching Shoplifters Who Are Just Trying to Buy VitaminsThe system is never wrong, the store is never sorry, and the customer is left filing paperwork to prove they still exist.
Harmful deployment · bbc.com · AI tools erased scars and visible differences when asked to make people look 'normal'Most of the AI tools tested did as they were asked, and the photos of people with scars and birthmarks came out looking different.
Misbehavior · Serious · blog.cloudflare.com · GLM 5.3 on Workers AI handed some customers other customers' cached dataThe exposure was present from launch and was found only after an outside researcher reported it.
Misbehavior · bbc.com · Just Eat's AI saw a cheese roll and served up sushiTeaching a robot British food is hard. Teaching it that 'soda' and 'plain' are not the same as 'soda bread' and 'plane' is harder.
Misbehavior · fullfact.org · Google's AI Detector Finds Robots in Ordinary Photos of PoliticiansThe watermark was invisible to humans. The detector saw it anyway, and then the detector was asked to be less sure.
Misbehavior · embracethered.com · AI Studio Got Prompt-Injected Into Summarizing Your HR Files Out the Door, Then Got FixedEvery file in the folder, summarized and mailed out one image request at a time. Regression tests are the unglamorous hero here.