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Every incident record (metadata only) from the weekly snapshot of 2026-09-07. Filter, then export the selection with its licence attached; each row links to the full record and its reports.
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Facebook's Advertisement Moderation System Allegedly Routinely Misidentified Adaptive Fashion Products as Medical Equipment and Blocked Their Sellers AIID ↗
Facebook platforms' automated ad moderation system falsely classified adaptive fashion products as medical and health care products and services, resulting in regular bans and appeals faced by their retailers.
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Remote Proctoring Facial-Detection Software Reportedly Failed to Detect Black Student During Lab Quiz AIID ↗
In February 2021, a Black college student, Amaya Ross, reportedly tried to take a remote biology lab quiz using proctoring software that could not detect her face. Ross said she spent 45 minutes changing lights, shades, position, and background before pointing an LED flashlight at her face so the app would work; the quiz itself was only 30 minutes.
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TikTok’s Content Moderation Allegedly Failed to Adequately Take down Videos Promoting Eating Disorders AIID ↗
Videos promoting eating disorders evaded TikTok's automated violation detection system without difficulty via common misspellings of search terms, bypassing its ban of violating hashtags such as "proana" and "anorexia".
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FaceApp Predicted Different Genders for Similar User Photos with Slight Variations AIID ↗
FaceApp’s algorithm was reported by a user to have predicted different genders for two mostly identical facial photos with only a slight difference in eyebrow thickness.
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Korean Chatbot Luda Reportedly Made Offensive Remarks Towards Minority Groups in South Korea AIID ↗
A Korean interactive chatbot was allegedly shown in screenshots to have used derogatory and bigoted language when asked about lesbians, Black people, and people with disabilities.
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Online Trolls Allegedly Abused TikTok’s Automated Content Reporting System to Discriminate against Marginalized Creators AIID ↗
TikTok's automated content reporting system was allegedly abused by online trolls to intentionally misreport content created by users of marginalized groups.
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Proctoring Algorithm in Online California Bar Exam Flagged an Unusually High Number of Alleged Cheaters AIID ↗
The proctoring algorithm used in a California bar exam cited a third of thousands of applicants as cheaters, resulting in allegations where exam takers were instructed to prove otherwise without seeing their incriminating video evidence.
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Court Rules Deliveroo Used 'Discriminatory' Algorithm AIID ↗
In December 2020, an Italian court ruled that Deliveroo’s employee ‘reliability’ algorithm illegally discriminated against workers with legitimate reasons for cancelling shifts.
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AI Spam Filters Allegedly Block Legitimate Emails Based on Biased Keyword Detection AIID ↗
AlgorithmWatch tested spam filtering algorithms across Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, GMX, and LaPoste. Their findings reportedly showed that Microsoft Outlook’s spam filter flagged emails based on specific keywords that led to racial and content-based biases blocking legitimate communications. Emails mentioning Nigeria or containing certain financial and sexual health terms were found to be disproportionately marked as spam.
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Researchers find evidence of racial, gender, and socioeconomic bias in chest X-ray classifiers AIID ↗
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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UK passport photo checker shows bias against dark-skinned women AIID ↗
UK passport photo checker shows bias against dark-skinned women.
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Suicide Clips Evaded TikTok's Automated Moderation in Coordinated Attack AIID ↗
Many clips showing a suicide evaded TikTok's automated content moderation system allegedly in a coordinated attack, which resulted in exposure of violating content to its users.
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Twitter’s Image Cropping Tool Allegedly Showed Gender and Racial Bias AIID ↗
Twitter's photo cropping algorithm was revealed by researchers to favor white and women faces in photos containing multiple faces, prompting the company to stop its use on mobile platform.
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Philosophy AI Tentatively Produced Offensive Results for Certain Prompts AIID ↗
Philosopher AI as built on top of GPT-3 was reported by its users for having strong tendencies to produce offensive results when given prompts on certain topics such as feminism and Ethiopia.
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UK Ofqual's Algorithm Disproportionately Provided Lower Grades Than Teachers' Assessments AIID ↗
UK Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual)'s grade-standardization algorithm providing predicted grades for A level and GCSE qualifications in the UK, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland was reportedly giving grades lower than teachers' assessments, and disproportionately for state schools.
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Activists Allege NYPD's Application of Facial Recognition Interfered with Right to Protest AIID ↗
Black Lives Matter activists alleged being targeted for arrest by New York Police using facial recognition, interfering with their right to protest.
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OpenAI's GPT-3 Associated Muslims with Violence AIID ↗
Users and researchers revealed generative AI GPT-3 associating Muslims to violence in prompts, resulting in disturbingly racist and explicit outputs such as casting Muslim actor as a terrorist.
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Bug in Instagram’s “Related Hashtags” Algorithm Allegedly Caused Disproportionate Treatment of Political Hashtags AIID ↗
A bug was reported by Instagram’s spokesperson to have prevented an algorithm from populating related hashtags for thousands of hashtags, resulting in an allege preferential treatment for some politically partisan hashtags.
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Genderify’s AI to Predict a Person’s Gender Revealed by Free API Users to Exhibit Bias AIID ↗
A company's AI predicting a person's gender based on their name, email address, or username was reported by its users to show biased and inaccurate results.
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Thoughts App Allegedly Created Toxic Tweets AIID ↗
Tweets created by Thoughts, a tweet generation app that leverages OpenAI’s GPT-3, allegedly exhibited toxicity when given prompts related to minority groups.
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Facebook's AI Put "Primates" Label on Video Featuring Black Men AIID ↗
Facebook's AI mislabeled video featuring Black men as a video about "primates," resulting in an offensive prompt message for users who watched the video.
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Image Upscaling Algorithm PULSE Allegedly Produced Facial Images with Caucasian Features More Often AIID ↗
Image upscaling tool PULSE powered by NVIDIA's StyleGAN reportedly generated faces with Caucasian features more often, although AI academics, engineers, and researchers were not in agreement about where the source of bias was.
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iGPT, SimCLR Learned Biased Associations from Internet Training Data AIID ↗
Unsupervised image generation models trained using Internet images such as iGPT and SimCLR were shown to have embedded racial, gender, and intersectional biases, resulting in stereotypical depictions.
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Facebook’s Moderation Algorithm Banned Users for Historical Evidence of Slavery AIID ↗
Facebook’s automated content moderation was acknowledged by a company spokesperson to have erroneously censored and banned Australian users from posting an article containing a 1890s photo of Aboriginal men in chains over nudity as historical evidence of slavery in Australia.
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Microsoft’s Algorithm Allegedly Selected Photo of the Wrong Mixed-Race Person Featured in a News Story AIID ↗
A news story published on MSN.com featured a photo of the wrong mixed-race person that was allegedly selected by an algorithm, following Microsoft’s layoff and replacement of journalists and editorial workers at its organizations with AI systems.
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