Coffee Meets Bagel’s Algorithm Reported by Users Disproportionately Showing Them Matches of Their Own Ethnicities Despite Selecting “No Preference”
Date: 2013-07-30
Affected: Coffee Meets Bagel
Attack vector: other
Category: real-world
Severity: High

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #280: Coffee Meets Bagel’s Algorithm Reported by Users Disproportionately Showing Them Matches of Their Own Ethnicities Despite Selecting “No Preference”. Alleged deployer/developer: Coffee Meets Bagel. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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