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Weibo Model Had Difficulty Detecting Shifts in Censored Speech

October 11, 2022

Weibo's user moderation model is having difficulty keeping up with shifting user slang in defiance of Chinese state censors.
Alleged deployer
weibo
Alleged developer
weibo
Alleged harmed parties
weibo, chinese-government

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/377

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.

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