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Amazon Reportedly Sold Products and Recommended Frequently Bought Together Items That Aid Suicide Attempts

AI Incident Database · article · Feb 4, 2022 · UTC

Despite complaints notifying Amazon about the sale of various products that had been used to aid suicide attempts, its recommendation system reportedly continued selling them and suggesting their frequently bought-together items.

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incident-report
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reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2022-02-04T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.

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