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Why Google 'Thought' This Black Woman Was a Gorilla

In this article, we delve into the infamous Google Photos incident where an image of a Black woman was mistakenly labeled as a gorilla. This...

Google Mistakenly Tags Black People as ‘Gorillas,’ Showing Limits of Algorithms

In a recent incident, Google's image search algorithm mistakenly tagged images of Black people as 'Gorillas.' This unfortunate event undersc...

Google Photos identified black people as 'gorillas,' but racist software isn't new

Recent reports of Google Photos incorrectly identifying black people as 'gorillas' have once again brought to light the issue of AI bias and...

Google rushes to fix software that served up racial slur

Recent events have shed light on an unintended racial slur served up by Google's software. The company swiftly recognized the issue, acknowl...

Google apologises for Photos app's racist blunder

A recent incident involving the Google Photos app has sparked controversy due to its misclassification of individuals based on race. The AI-...

Google Apologizes For Tagging Photos Of Black People As ‘Gorillas'

Google, one of the tech giants pioneering AI, recently apologized for an incident where its photo-scanning app labeled images containing Bla...

Google Removed Gorillas From Search to Fix Racist Algorithm

Google recently took a step towards responsible AI governance by removing the term 'gorillas' from its search function, following reports of...

Google has ‘fixed’ its algorithm that categorised people as 'Gorillas' with a not so elegant solution

In a recent development, tech giant Google has rectified an incident where its algorithm categorized certain individuals as 'Gorillas'. The...

Google apologizes for mis-tagging photos of African Americans

Recently, Google acknowledged an incident involving the inappropriate tagging of photos containing African American individuals. This incide...

Google Photos Still Has a Problem with Gorillas

Recent reports indicate that Google Photos, the popular image organizing platform, continues to misidentify gorillas in user photos. This in...

Two years later, Google solves 'racist algorithm' problem by purging 'gorilla' label from image classifier

Google has rectified a two-year-old issue where its image classification algorithm was mislabeling images of Black people as gorillas. The c...

Google Photo App Labels Black Couple 'Gorillas'

In an unfortunate incident that underscores the need for responsible AI governance, Google's photo application misclassified a black couple...

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.

Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide

We use weekly snapshots of the AIID for stable reference. For the official suggested citation of a specific incident, use the “Cite this incident” link on each incident page.