LLMMedium
Defamation via AutoComplete
- Occurred
- Apr 5, 2011
- Published
- Mar 26, 2012
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Google's autocomplete feature alongside its image search results resulted in the defamation of people and businesses.
Developers
Deployers
Harmed parties
- Varied
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Autocomplete failures causing defamation represent a language model output issue with notable but limited harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8