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Twitter's AI Moderation Tool Misidentified Rockets as Pornography

January 3, 2023

Twitter's automated content moderation misidentified images of rocket launches as pornographic content, prompting incorrect account suspensions.
Alleged deployer
twitter
Alleged developer
twitter
Alleged harmed parties
twitter-users

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/453

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

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