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Error in Pepsi's Number Generation System Led to Decades-Long Damages in the Philippines
- Occurred
- May 25, 1992
- Published
- Nov 15, 2021
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Pepsi's number generation system determining daily winners in its Number Fever promotion in the Philippines mistakenly produced a number held by thousands which resulted in riots, deaths, conspiracy theories, and decades of lawsuits.
Developers
- D.G. Consultores
Deployers
- Pepsi
Harmed parties
- Filipinos
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 95%
Rationale: System error caused deaths and riots, but not a modern AI safety incident.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8