Description: OpenAI’s prototype AI tool, SearchGPT, provided incorrect dates for An Appalachian Summer Festival in Boone, North Carolina during a demonstration video. The AI listed dates that were incorrect, potentially misleading users planning to attend the event, but also harming the reputation of OpenAI as the incident occurred during a high-profile event.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: OpenAI developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed OpenAI and An Appalachian Summer Festival attendees.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
751
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2024-07-25
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
theatlantic.com · 2024
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Whenever AI companies present a vision for the role of artificial intelligence in the future of searching the internet, they tend to underscore the same points: instantaneous summaries of relevant information; ready-made lists tailored to a…
washingtonpost.com · 2024
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SAN FRANCISCO --- A long-awaited search engine being developed by the maker of ChatGPT is far from ready to replace Google, according to interviews with people who got access to the tool, videos shared online and analysis by a search market…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.