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AI-Generated Reading Summaries on Fable App Reportedly Wrote Biased and Offensive Commentary

Fable, a book-focused social app, used OpenAI’s API to generate AI-powered year-end reading summaries in December 2024. These summaries allegedly produced biased and offensive remarks about race, gender, and sexual orientation. Fable is reported to have apologized in a social media post on January 1, 2025.

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