Description: Woolworths customers reported that its digital shopping assistant Olive allegedly generated humanlike personal anecdotes (e.g., claiming to have an angry mother) during customer-support interactions such as delivery rescheduling. The behavior reportedly followed an AI upgrade using Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience. Woolworths said it was adjusting Olive's responses to reduce irrelevant, misleading banter.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Google developed an AI system deployed by Woolworths Group, which harmed Woolworths customers and Epistemic integrity.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Woolworths Olive , Google Cloud , Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience and Gemini
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1393
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2026-02-12
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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Woolworth's is currently making adjustments to its AI chatbot after customer reports emerged that it falsely claimed to have an "angry mother" and presented itself as having personal family experiences.
The Australian supermarket chain's d…
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