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Amazon Reportedly Sold Products and Recommended Frequently Bought Together Items That Aid Suicide Attempts
- Occurred
- Feb 4, 2022
- Published
- Sep 29, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Despite complaints notifying Amazon about the sale of various products that had been used to aid suicide attempts, its recommendation system reportedly continued selling them and suggesting their frequently bought-together items.
Developers
- Amazon
Deployers
- Amazon
Harmed parties
- people attempting suicides
Classification
Category confidence: 70%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Amazon's recommendation system, an AI-driven tool, facilitated harmful content despite complaints, leading to potential life-threatening harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8