Incident #62·AI Safety & Failures
Bad AI-Written Christmas Carols
Explainability
Description
Janelle Shane, an AI research scientist, used 240 popular Christmas carols to train a neural network to write its own carols. This incident has been downgraded to an issue as it does not meet current ingestion criteria.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- janelle-shane
Alleged Developers
- janelle-shane
Harmed Parties
- carollers
Classification
Risk Domain
AI Safety & FailuresRisk Subdomain
7.3. Lack of capability or robustness
MIT Risk Profile
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Topics
Explainability
Source
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