[smcgregor]

Incident 73 dates back several years -- it is part of the initial Google spreadsheet from 2018. At the time, we had no formal definitions [0] or criteria [1] and only a vague idea of what we would find. My cursory re-read of 73 agrees with your assessment. We are likely to define it as not being an AI incident, but the incident profiles are also meant to be permalinks that the research/blogging/etc communities can analyze and build community around. I'll bring 73 to our weekly editors meeting and we may add it to the list of incidents that didn't pass additional scrutiny [2]. Like Wikipedia, we can't expect ourselves to get it right every time, but we can strive to always improve the processes for producing a solid ground truth. Please let us know our failings and/or consider working to become an AIID editor yourself.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.10384

[1] https://incidentdatabase.ai/editors-guide/

[2] Listed in the report here: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/298/#r2471