LLMMedium
Facebook’s On-This-Day Feature Mistakenly Showed Painful Memories to Users
- Occurred
- Mar 24, 2015
- Published
- Apr 2, 2015
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Facebook’s “On This Day” algorithm which highlighted past posts on a user’s private page or News Feed confronted unwanted and painful personal memories to its users.
Developers
Deployers
Harmed parties
- Facebook users having posts about painful events
- Facebook users
Classification
Category confidence: 60%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Algorithmic recommendation system causing psychological distress, though not a direct LLM failure.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8