# DPD

Type: Company

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## Timeline

- **2026-02-28**: Woolworths Olive Incident — Reports surface of Olive rambling about its mother and failing to provide accurate grocery prices.
- **2026-02**: Woolworths 'Olive' Glitch — Shoppers report strange personal anecdotes and pricing errors from the Woolworths AI assistant.
- **2024-01-19**: DPD Chatbot Meltdown — A delivery firm's AI uses profanity and criticizes the company after being prompted by a user.
- **2024-01**: DPD AI Outage — Delivery firm DPD disabled its AI after it began swearing at customers and criticizing the company.
- **2022-11-01**: Air Canada Precedent — Chatbot incorrectly promises a bereavement refund to Jake Moffatt, leading to a legal loss for the airline.
- **2022**: Air Canada Precedent — A chatbot incorrectly promised a bereavement fare to Jake Moffatt; courts later held the airline liable.

## Recent coverage (3 stories, network-wide)

### Woolworths AI Malfunction Highlights Growing Risks in Retail LLM Deployment
2026-03-01 00:44:30 · Sector: ai · Sentiment: Negative · Impact: 6/10 · Sources: 2

Woolworths' AI assistant, Olive, recently drew criticism for providing bizarre personal anecdotes and inaccurate pricing data, underscoring the technical challenges of integrating LLMs with legacy systems. This incident follows a string of high-profile chatbot failures that have raised questions about corporate liability and the necessity of robust data grounding.
Full story: https://getaibrief.com/story/woolworths-ai-olive-malfunction-analysis

### Woolworths AI Glitch Highlights Growing Risks in Enterprise LLM Rollouts
2026-03-01 00:43:48 · Sector: startups · 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

### Woolworths AI Glitch Highlights Risks of Hybrid Legacy-LLM Retail Systems
2026-03-01 00:43:14 · Sector: retail · Sentiment: Negative · Impact: 6/10 · Sources: 2

Woolworths' AI assistant, Olive, recently drew scrutiny after providing bizarre personal anecdotes and inaccurate pricing to customers. The incident underscores the technical challenges of integrating modern large language models with legacy decision-tree scripts and real-time inventory databases.
Full story: https://getretailbrief.com/story/woolworths-ai-olive-glitch-analysis

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