Book App Alarmed as Its AI Starts Mocking Users for Reading Books by Women and Minorities
Page Burner The popular book app Fable has come under fire for its AI-generated annual roundups, which some users say gave them offensive messages about race and gender, Wired reports. These days, every app imaginable is deploying its own take on the wildly popular Spotify Wrapped feature by providing personalized end-of-year recaps for users’ consumption habits. Hopping on the trend, Fable tried to stand out by using AI to “playfully roast” its readers. In some cases, however, the AI veered into overly edgy territory — in what appears to be an all-too-common case of a large language model defying its guardrails. The summary for Fable user Tiana Trammell, for example, praised her for being a “soulful explorer” of “Black narratives,” before about-facing completely: “Don’t forget to surface for the occasional white author, okay?” “I typically enjoy my reader summaries from [Fable], but this particular one is not sitting well with…