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AI-Generated Reading Summaries on Fable App Reportedly Wrote Biased and Offensive Commentary
- Occurred
- Dec 29, 2024
- Published
- Jan 3, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
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.
Developers
- OpenAI
- Fable
Deployers
- Fable
Harmed parties
- Fable users
- Fable
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: AI-generated summaries produced biased and offensive commentary on race, gender, and sexual orientation.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8