5 Times AI Mistakes Turned Into Controversies

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AI has opened up a world of possibilities. But since the explosive success of ChatGPT, several gaffes have raised concerns about AI


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Here are a few times that AI got it wrong:


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Tutoring company iTutorGroup paid $365,000 fine after their software automatically rejected female tutors older than 55


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The software mistake led to over 200 qualified applicants getting automatically rejected


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A US lawyer landed in big trouble after using ChatGPT to research precedents in a lawsuit


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ChatGPT generated fake court cases and file numbers that he presented in court as evidence. He was fined $5,000


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Microsoft had to apologise for its decision to use Twitter interactions as training data for AI


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In less than a day, the chatbot posted over 95,000 tweets, most of which were racist, misogynist, and anti-Semitic.


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A New Zealand supermarket that used AI to help shoppers generate recipes, recommended a way to manufacture chlorine gas


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The software also came up with recipes for glue sandwiches, rice with bleach, and bug spray potatoes


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Google had to pause its AI image tool Gemini after it generated images of black and women Nazis


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