FILE — Shelves of books at a seller in Dublin, Sept. 4, 2024. After a feature in the book-tracking app Fable shocked some readers, who flagged “bigoted” language in an artificial intelligence feature that crafts summaries, the company introduced safeguards. (Ellius Grace/The New York Times)
Fable, a popular app for talking about and tracking books, is changing the way it creates personalised summaries for its users after complaints that an artificial intelligence model used offensive language.
One summary suggested that a reader of Black narratives should also read white authors.
