AI Incident Database - Incident 791
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- google-users
entity | 16 June 2026 | 70%
google-users - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- parents
entity | 23 Nov 2025 | 70%
parents - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- ai-overview
entity | 15 Sept 2024 | 70%
ai-overview - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- Google AI Error Prompts Parents to Use Fecal Matter in Child Training Exercise
event | 15 Sept 2024 | 78%
Google's AI Overview feature mistakenly advised parents to use human feces in a potty training exercise, misinterpreting a method that uses shaving cream or peanut butter as a substitute. This incident is another example of an AI failure in grasping contextual nuances that can lead to potentially harmful, and in this case unsanitary, recommendations. Google has acknowledged the error.