LLMMedium
Google's Bard Shared Factually Inaccurate Info in Promo Video
- Occurred
- Feb 7, 2023
- Published
- Apr 19, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Google's conversational AI "Bard" was shown in the company's promotional video providing false information about which satellite first took pictures of a planet outside the Earth's solar system, reportedly causing shares to temporarily plummet.
Developers
Deployers
Harmed parties
- Google shareholders
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Bard is an LLM that generated hallucinated facts in a promotional video, causing minor financial impact.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8