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Defamation via AutoComplete
2011-04-05
Google's autocomplete feature alongside its image search results resulted in the defamation of people and businesses.
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Google admits its self driving car got it wrong: Bus crash was caused by software
2016-09-26
On February 14, 2016, a Google autonomous test vehicle partially responsible for a low-speed collision with a bus on El Camino Real in Google’s hometown of Mountain View, CA.
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Sexist and Racist Google Adsense Advertisements
2013-01-23
Advertisements chosen by Google Adsense are reported as producing sexist and racist results.
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Images of Black People Labeled as Gorillas
2015-06-03
Google Photos image processing software mistakenly labelled a black couple as "gorillas."
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Incident 46714 Reports
Google's Bard Shared Factually Inaccurate Info in Promo Video
2023-02-07
Google's conversational AI "Bard" was shown in the company's promotional video providing false information about which satellite first took pictures of a planet outside the Earth's solar system, reportedly causing shares to temporarily plummet.
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Deepfake Voice Exploit Compromises Retool's Cloud Services
2023-08-27
In August 2023, a hacker reportedly was successful in breaching Retool, an IT company specializing in business software solutions, impacting 27 cloud customers. The attacker appears to have initiated the breach by sending phishing SMS messages to employees and later used an AI-generated deepfake voice in a phone call to obtain multi-factor authentication codes. The breach seems to have exposed vulnerabilities in Google's Authenticator app, specifically its cloud-syncing function, further enabling unauthorized access to internal systems.
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Incident 4693 Reports
Automated Adult Content Detection Tools Showed Bias against Women Bodies
2006-02-25
Automated content moderation tools to detect sexual explicitness or "raciness" reportedly exhibited bias against women bodies, resulting in suppression of reach despite not breaking platform policies.
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Common Biases of Vector Embeddings
2016-07-21
Researchers from Boston University and Microsoft Research, New England demonstrated gender bias in the most common techniques used to embed words for natural language processing (NLP).
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Researchers find evidence of racial, gender, and socioeconomic bias in chest X-ray classifiers
2020-10-21
A study by the University of Toronto, the Vector Institute, and MIT showed the input databases that trained AI systems used to classify chest X-rays led the systems to show gender, socioeconomic, and racial biases.
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AI-Generated Articles at G/O Media Allegedly Diminishes Reputation of Human Staff
2023-07-05
G/O Media began publishing AI-generated articles, against staff advice, that contained errors and quality issues. The first such article, a list of Star Wars movies, failed to maintain chronological order, causing internal concerns over journalistic credibility and ethics. Staff expressed that the AI was "actively hurting our reputations and credibility" and accused management of "wasting everyone's time."
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