BiasMedium
OpenAI's GPT-3 Associated Muslims with Violence
- Occurred
- Aug 6, 2020
- Published
- Jan 19, 2021
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Users and researchers revealed generative AI GPT-3 associating Muslims to violence in prompts, resulting in disturbingly racist and explicit outputs such as casting Muslim actor as a terrorist.
Developers
- OpenAI
Deployers
- OpenAI
Harmed parties
- Muslims
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: GPT-3 generated racist outputs associating Muslims with violence, representing a clear bias incident.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8