Misidentification of Adaptive Fashion Products: An Issue in Facebook's AI Governance
February 11, 2021
Facebook's automated ad moderation system frequently misclassified adaptive fashion products as medical equipment, triggering regular bans and appeals for the affected retailers. This 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
- facebook, instagram
- Alleged developer
- facebook, instagram
- Alleged harmed parties
- facebook-users-of-disabilities, adaptive-fashion-retailers
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/142
Data source
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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