Bestiality Thumbnail Content: Bypassing YouTube's Thumbnail Monitoring System - Harm Prevention in AI Governance

April 23, 2018

AI-driven content farms, including ones in Cambodia, allegedly bypassed YouTube's thumbnail monitoring system, utilizing bestiality-themed images to boost viewership and generate ad revenue. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help establish guardrails for safe and secure AI? JOIN US
Alleged deployer
youtube
Alleged developer
youtube
Alleged harmed parties
youtube-users, youtube-content-creators

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/229

Data source

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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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