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Meta AI's Scientific Paper Generator Reportedly Produced Inaccurate and Harmful Content

Occurred
Nov 15, 2022
Published
Nov 18, 2022
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

Meta AI trained and hosted a scientific paper generator that sometimes produced bad science and prohibited queries on topics and groups that are likely to produce offensive or harmful content.

Developers

  • Meta
  • Facebook

Deployers

  • Meta
  • Facebook

Harmed parties

  • Minority groups
  • Meta
  • Facebook

Classification

Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%

Rationale: Meta AI's text generation model produced inaccurate scientific content and blocked certain queries.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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