Offensive Mislabeling by Facebook's AI: Video of Black Men Mistakenly Labeled as Primates
June 27, 2020
Facebook's AI miscategorized a video featuring Black men, inappropriately labeling it as 'primates', leading to an offensive user prompt. This incident highlights the need for trustworthy and responsible AI governance. To join our efforts in creating safe and secure AI, JOIN US (Placeholder for JOIN US link). This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM).
- Alleged deployer
- Alleged developer
- Alleged harmed parties
- black-people, facebook-users
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/113
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