Children
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Alexa Plays Pornography Instead of Kids Song
2016-12-30
An Amazon Echo Dot using the Amazon Alex software started to play pornographic results when a child asked it to play a song.
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Google’s YouTube Kids App Presents Inappropriate Content
2015-05-19
YouTube’s content filtering and recommendation algorithms exposed children to disturbing and inappropriate videos.
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OpenAI Alleged by Lawsuit Violated Users' Privacy Rights by Training AI on Private Info without Informed Consent
2019-03-11
OpenAI's products such as ChatGPT and DALL-E were alleged in a lawsuit using stolen private information from internet users without their informed consent or knowledge.
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Instagram Algorithms Allegedly Promote Accounts Facilitating Child Sex Abuse Content
2023-06-07
An investigation disclosed that Instagram's recommendation algorithms are promoting accounts that facilitate and sell child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The study, conducted by The Wall Street Journal and researchers at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, indicates that Instagram's algorithms not only allow for the discovery of such accounts through keyword searches but also actively recommend them to users within the network. The issue is especially concerning given Instagram's popularity among teenagers.
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