Description: Amazon’s AI-generated review summary allegedly misrepresented customer feedback on Mein Kampf by describing it as “a true work of art.” Google’s search algorithm then surfaced this misleading AI-generated text as a featured snippet, which in turn amplified the error. This incident arose from AI summarizing AI-generated content, in effect creating a self-reinforcing misinformation loop.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Amazon , Google , Google search algorithm , Google featured snippets , Amazon review summarizer , Amazon product review , Amazon content moderation systems and Google AI overview developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed General public.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Google search algorithm , Google featured snippets , Amazon review summarizer , Amazon product review , Amazon content moderation systems and Google AI overview
Incident Stats
Incident ID
967
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2025-03-06
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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Google's featured snippet is pulling in an Amazon AI summary of Adolf Hitler's Nazi manifesto Mein Kampf that calls it "a true work of art" in the latest AI-related fuckup affecting top search results.
As of writing, searching for "mein kam…
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