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Bad AI-Written Christmas Carols

AI Incident Database · article · Nov 1, 2022 · UTC

Janelle Shane, an AI research scientist, used 240 popular Christmas carols to train a neural network to write its own carols. This incident has been downgraded to an issue as it does not meet current ingestion criteria.

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recordType
incident-report
evidenceStatus
reported
region
Global

Reported occurrence date: 2017-12-23T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.

Observed changes

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2026-09-20T23:22:28.549Z

  • publishedAt: Not provided → 2022-11-01T00:00:00.000Z