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OpenAI API used by Fable

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Incident 8824 Report
AI-Generated Reading Summaries on Fable App Reportedly Wrote Biased and Offensive Commentary

2024-12-29

Fable, a book-focused social app, used OpenAI’s API to generate AI-powered year-end reading summaries in December 2024. These summaries allegedly produced biased and offensive remarks about race, gender, and sexual orientation. Fable is reported to have apologized in a social media post on January 1, 2025.

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Fable

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 882
    4 Reports

    AI-Generated Reading Summaries on Fable App Reportedly Wrote Biased and Offensive Commentary

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  • Incident 882
    4 Reports

    AI-Generated Reading Summaries on Fable App Reportedly Wrote Biased and Offensive Commentary

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OpenAI

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 882
    4 Reports

    AI-Generated Reading Summaries on Fable App Reportedly Wrote Biased and Offensive Commentary

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Fable users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 882
    4 Reports

    AI-Generated Reading Summaries on Fable App Reportedly Wrote Biased and Offensive Commentary

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