YouTube's Auto-Moderation Error: Banning Women of Sex Tech Conference Over Non-Existent Policy Violation - A Case for Safe and Responsible AI
May 2, 2020
Recent incident involving the mistaken removal of The Women of Sex Tech conference’s live-streamed event by YouTube’s automated content moderator, despite adhering to platform sexual content policies, highlights the importance of trustworthy AI governance. Prevent harm with us. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- youtube
- Alleged developer
- youtube
- Alleged harmed parties
- women-of-sex-tech-conference-attendants, women-of-sex-tech-conference-organizers
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/311
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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