LLMMedium
SearchGPT Reportedly Misleads Users with Incorrect Festival Dates in Demo
- Occurred
- Jul 25, 2024
- Published
- Sep 4, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
OpenAI’s prototype AI tool, SearchGPT, provided incorrect dates for An Appalachian Summer Festival in Boone, North Carolina during a demonstration video. The AI listed dates that were incorrect, potentially misleading users planning to attend the event, but also harming the reputation of OpenAI as the incident occurred during a high-profile event.
Developers
- OpenAI
Deployers
- OpenAI
Harmed parties
- An Appalachian Summer Festival attendees
- OpenAI
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: SearchGPT is an LLM-based tool that hallucinated incorrect information during a demo, causing user confusion and reputational harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8