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AI Incidents

Misinformation Reported in TikTok's Search Results Despite Moderation by AI and Human

September 11, 2022

TikTok's search recommendations reportedly contained misinformation about political topics bypassing both AI and human content moderation.
Alleged deployer
tiktok
Alleged developer
tiktok
Alleged harmed parties
young-tiktok-users, tiktok-users, gen-z-tiktok-users

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/397

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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