Description: AI-powered web accessibility vendors allegedly overstated to customers about their products' utility for people with disabilities, falsely claiming to deliver automated compliance solutions.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: accessiBe , Accessus.ai , Allyable , UserWay and MaxAccess.io developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed internet users with disabilities and web accessibility vendors' customers.
CSETv1 Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsIncident Number
The number of the incident in the AI Incident Database.
148
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
overlayfalseclaims.com · 2021
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Truth in advertising does not exist for overlay vendors False claims at the expense of customers and persons with disabilities.
Introduction
False advertising harms consumers and is damaging to a fair marketplace. It is also illegal.
The Fe…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.
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