Facebook AI-Supported Moderation for Ads Failed to Detect Violating Content
December 8, 2021
Facebook's ad moderation system involving algorithms failed to flag hateful language and violating content such as calls for killings for ads in English and Swahili.
- Alleged deployer
- Alleged developer
- Alleged harmed parties
- facebook-users-speaking-swahili, facebook-users-speaking-english, facebook-users
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/393
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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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