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Facebook Automated Year-in-Review Highlights Showed Users Painful Memories

AI Incident Database · article · Dec 24, 2014 · UTC

Facebook’s “Year in Review” algorithm which compiled content in users’ past year as highlights inadvertently showed painful and unwanted memories to users, including death of family member.

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incident-report
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reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2014-12-09T00:00:00.000Z

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

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