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Facebook Automated Year-in-Review Highlights Showed Users Painful Memories

Occurred
Dec 9, 2014
Published
Dec 24, 2014
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

Facebook’s “Year in Review” algorithm which compiled content in users’ past year as highlights inadvertently showed painful and unwanted memories to users, including death of family member.

Developers

  • Facebook

Deployers

  • Facebook

Harmed parties

  • Facebook users having posts about painful events
  • Facebook users

Classification

Category confidence: 70%
Severity confidence: 80%

Rationale: Algorithmic failure causing emotional harm by surfacing unwanted memories, fitting bias/harm dimension.

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

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