Alleged Inadequacy in TikTok's Content Moderation: Videos Promoting Eating Disorders
December 27, 2020
Content moderation concerns have been raised due to videos promoting eating disorders bypassing TikTok's automated system through common misspellings and evading banned hashtags like 'proana' and 'anorexia'. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help ensure safe and secure AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- tiktok
- Alleged developer
- tiktok
- Alleged harmed parties
- tiktok-users, tiktok-users-under-18-years-old
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/132
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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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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