Unwanted Cross-Association: Facebook AI Mistakes Mass Shootings for Car Washes

In an unfortunate incident highlighting the need for safe and secure AI, a Facebook AI moderator mistakenly flagged videos of car washes as violent content due to its resemblance with mass shootings. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help us establish guardrails for AI? JOIN US

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/129

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Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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