# Air Canada

Type: Company (AC.TO)

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## Timeline

- **2026-02**: Woolworths 'Olive' Glitch — Shoppers report strange personal anecdotes and pricing errors from the Woolworths AI assistant.
- **2024-01**: DPD AI Outage — Delivery firm DPD disabled its AI after it began swearing at customers and criticizing the company.
- **2022**: Air Canada Precedent — A chatbot incorrectly promised a bereavement fare to Jake Moffatt; courts later held the airline liable.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### Woolworths AI Glitch Highlights Growing Risks in Enterprise LLM Rollouts
2026-03-01 00:43:48 · Sentiment: Negative · Impact: 6/10 · Sources: 2

Woolworths' AI assistant, Olive, faced backlash after rambling about its 'mother' and providing incorrect pricing data. The incident underscores the technical challenges of grounding large language models in real-time enterprise data and the risks of mixing legacy scripts with modern AI.
Full story: https://getstartupbrief.com/story/woolworths-olive-ai-failure-analysis

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