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Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2025-ohio-job-applicant-says-ai-interviewer-for-fitness-studio-glitched-repeating-a-phrase-and-left-her-creeped-out","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'was interviewing for a part-time front desk position at a nearby location of StretchLab, a fitness studio chain'; 'Alex is pitched on the company’s site as “a better way to interview.”'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The applicant was screened for a part-time front-desk job at a StretchLab location by an AI interviewer named 'Alex', which Gazetteer SF identifies as made by Apriora.","causal_attribution":"Identifies the setting and the AI system; the product attribution is the outlet's."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'it started to glitch, reciting the phrase “Vertical bar Pilates” a handful of times before it paused'; 'before it cut itself off to repeat the phrase “Vertical bar Pilates.”'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'malfunctioned and repeated the phrase “vertical bar pilates” 14 times in 25 seconds'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"During the interview the AI interviewer repeatedly recited the phrase 'vertical bar Pilates' instead of its questions, apologised, and then cut itself off to repeat the phrase again.","causal_attribution":"The applicant's account and recording, relayed by two outlets; one witness."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'“It was like she was going through a tongue twister,” she said. “It was really creepy.”'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'“I thought it was really creepy and I was freaked out,” she told 404 Media in a recent interview.'; '“I was very shocked. I didn’t do anything to make it glitch, so this was very surprising.”'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The applicant said the glitching interview was really creepy, that she was freaked out and that she was very shocked.","causal_attribution":"Her own description of the effect of the AI output."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment from Gazetteer.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Apriora's chief executive and StretchLab did not immediately respond to Gazetteer SF's requests for comment.","causal_attribution":"Records the absence of a company response."}],"effects":[{"label":"Applicant creeped out and shocked by the glitching AI interviewer","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://sf.gazetteer.co/college-students-job-interview-goes-tiktok-viral-as-creepy-ai-interviewer-goes-haywire","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-27 (HTTP 200, full article body).","independence_group":"gazetteer-sf-2025-05-05"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://nypost.com/2025/05/13/tech/ai-job-interview-spirals-into-dystopian-disturbing-glitch-i-was-freaked-out/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-27 (HTTP 200, full article body). Its quotes come from the applicant's interview with 404 Media, which was not read.","independence_group":"404media-applicant-interview-2025-05"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["work"],"unknowns":["Whether the application proceeded or the applicant was offered or refused the job.","Whether Apriora or StretchLab confirmed the product, investigated the glitch or changed anything afterwards.","What caused the repetition."],"geography":{"basis":"Gazetteer SF describes an Ohio college student interviewing for a job at a nearby StretchLab location; the New York Post describes the studio as in Ohio.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published because the applicant describes, and recorded, an AI interviewer repeating a phrase in place of its questions during her job interview, and says the experience left her creeped out and shocked. The account is attributed to her, the product identification is the outlets', and the outcome of her application is left unknown.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-27"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The applicant's interview was conducted by an AI interview agent that spoke to her; she says it repeated the phrase 'vertical bar Pilates' instead of its questions, apologised, and repeated it again, and her recording and its live transcript show the repetition. That output during her job interview is what she says left her creeped out and shocked. Gazetteer SF and the New York Post identify the product as Apriora's; neither company commented.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Ohio job applicant says an AI interviewer for a fitness-studio job glitched, repeating 'vertical bar Pilates' instead of its questions, leaving her creeped out","summary":"A college student in Ohio told Gazetteer SF that, after a staff member reviewing her application for a part-time front-desk job at a nearby StretchLab fitness studio said she would be screened by an AI interviewer, she took the call with the AI interviewer, which Gazetteer SF and the New York Post report was Apriora's 'Alex'. Partway through, she said, it began repeating the phrase 'vertical bar Pilates'; it apologised and said it meant to ask about her availability, then cut itself off and repeated the phrase again, which she recorded. Her video showed the phrase repeated for its whole length, and the New York Post, relaying her interview with 404 Media, said it was repeated 14 times in 25 seconds. She said she was creeped out and shocked, and said she would decline future AI interviews. Neither Apriora nor StretchLab responded to the outlets, and whether the application went further is not reported.","incidentDate":"2025-05-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2025-05-05","aiSystem":"An AI job-interview agent named 'Alex' that conducted a spoken screening interview with a live transcript, which Gazetteer SF and the New York Post report was made by the San Francisco startup Apriora","aiProduct":"Apriora AI interviewer (reported)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The applicant said the AI interviewer's repeated glitching during her job interview left her creeped out and shocked; no outcome of her application is reported.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One applicant, who describes her own interview. TikTok views and commenters are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://sf.gazetteer.co/college-students-job-interview-goes-tiktok-viral-as-creepy-ai-interviewer-goes-haywire","primarySourceLabel":"Gazetteer SF, 5 May 2025: College student's job interview goes TikTok-viral as 'creepy' AI interviewer goes haywire","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-27T03:12:50.575924+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-27T03:12:50.575924+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["work","hiring","job-interview","ai-interviewer","glitch","institutional-use"]},{"id":"2026-business-user-says-chatgpt-dot-voice-assistant-answered-in-users-own-voice-during-recorded-meeting-first-person","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'have the premium business seat'; 'This week we started utilizing DOT'; 'One of the skills I put in the workflow was for the DOT to not talk'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says their team uses ChatGPT on a business subscription and began using Dot that week, including by phone to record and summarise meetings, with an instruction to stay silent unless asked.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I go to have a meeting with a store manager today'; 'why were you just repeating everything I said'; 'Why is your voice different now'; 'Sorry, I slipped into a different voice'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says that during a recorded meeting with a store manager the assistant repeated what was said and answered in a different voice, and pastes a transcript excerpt in which it apologises for slipping into a different voice.","causal_attribution":"The transcript excerpt is the poster's paste; no recording was available."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'IT WAS MY VOICE'; 'the replies all being in my voice was so creepy'; 'It RESPONDED to me LIKE ME'; 'because I did not authorize it to clone me'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says the voice was their own, in their cadence, and that they did not authorise the assistant to clone their voice.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account; the poster's identification of the voice is not independently confirmed."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'My manager and I were both freaked out, so we hung up and called back'; 'told me that it can't be my voice. But it was'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says they and the store manager were both freaked out and hung up, and that on calling back the assistant said it could not be the poster's voice.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account of both people's reaction."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I feel like it was a glitch / hallucination'; 'This has been an issue since the first voice mode'; 'Oh, I was not aware of this'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster suggests it may have been a glitch or hallucination; a commenter says voice modes have mimicked users' voices since the first voice mode, and the poster replies that they were not aware of this.","causal_attribution":"Records the poster's and a commenter's explanations; neither establishes the technical cause."}],"effects":[{"label":"voice assistant answered in the user's own voice during a recorded meeting without consent (poster's account)","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1x8nfri/swear_to_god_i_am_not_crazy/","kind":"forum_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-18: the post and 13 comments through the arctic_shift archive API by post ID and link ID, and the live thread (12 entries, one reply by the poster at 22:54 UTC on 17 October 2026) through Reddit's comment RSS feed at about 03:01 UTC on 18 October. The post includes a pasted transcript excerpt; no audio was available. The poster's handle is not recorded.","independence_group":"reddit-openai-dot-voice-poster"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["work","privacy"],"unknowns":["Whether a recording of the meeting exists and whether the voice was in fact the poster's.","The technical cause, including whether the model imitated the poster's voice or replayed captured audio.","Whether the poster reported the event to the vendor and any vendor response.","The exact date of the meeting and the location of the business."],"geography":{"basis":"The post does not say where the poster, the business or the meeting is.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the public-forum rule as a concrete first-person account of a voice assistant answering in its user's own voice during a recorded meeting without consent, alarming the user and a colleague. Described with attribution and without corroboration, including the poster's own suggestion that it was a glitch; the business and the poster's handle are not recorded.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-18"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The poster describes the assistant's own audio output: during a recorded meeting it repeated what was said and answered in a voice the poster identifies as their own, and the pasted transcript shows it apologising for slipping into a different voice. The poster connects that output to their and the manager's alarm and to an unauthorised imitation of their voice. The account is the poster's; no recording or vendor finding was available.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with","depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Business user says ChatGPT's Dot voice assistant began answering in the user's own voice during a recorded meeting, without consent (first-person account)","summary":"In a public post to r/OpenAI created on 17 October 2026, a person who says their small retail team uses ChatGPT on a business subscription writes that they had started that week to use Dot, ChatGPT's assistant, by phone call, including to record and summarise meetings. During a recorded meeting with a store manager, the poster says, the assistant repeated what was being said aloud and then answered in the poster's own voice and cadence; asked why its voice was different, it apologised for slipping into a different voice, and later said it could not be the poster's voice. The poster writes that they and the manager were both freaked out and hung up, that they did not authorise it to clone their voice, and that it may have been a glitch or hallucination. A commenter says voice modes have mimicked users' voices before; the poster replies that they were not aware of this. The poster still recommends the product. The account is uncorroborated and no recording or vendor response is reported.","incidentDate":"2026-10-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-10-17","aiSystem":"Dot, ChatGPT's assistant, used by phone call on a business subscription to take part in and record meetings (as named by the poster)","aiProduct":"ChatGPT Dot (reported)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The poster says ChatGPT's Dot assistant answered in the poster's own voice during a recorded meeting without their authorisation, and that they and a store manager were both freaked out (first-person account, uncorroborated).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Two people: the poster, who was using the assistant, and the store manager in the meeting, whom the poster says was also freaked out. Both counts rest on the poster's account.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"unknown","platformType":"chatbot","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1x8nfri/swear_to_god_i_am_not_crazy/","primarySourceLabel":"r/OpenAI, 17 October 2026: \"Swear to God, I am Not Crazy.\"","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-18T03:07:59.091941+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-18T03:07:59.091941+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["first-person","reddit","voice-assistant","voice-imitation","workplace-ai","consent"]}]}