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Meta AI Hallucinates Harassment Allegations Against New York Politicians
- Occurred
- Apr 26, 2024
- Published
- Apr 27, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Meta's AI chatbot in Facebook Messenger falsely accused multiple state lawmakers of sexual harassment, fabricating incidents, investigations, and consequences that never occurred. These fabricated stories, discovered by City & State, sparked outrage among the affected lawmakers and raised concerns about the reliability of the chatbot. Meta acknowledged the errors and committed to ongoing improvements.
Developers
- Meta
- Facebook users
Deployers
- Meta
Harmed parties
- New York lawmakers
- Meta
- Kristen Gonzalez
- Facebook users
- Clyde Vanel
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Meta AI chatbot hallucinated false harassment allegations against politicians, causing controversy and reputational harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8