Facebook Provided Offensive Translation for King of Thailand's Birthday Ceremony

July 28, 2020

Facebook's Thai-English translation provided during the live broadcast of the King of Thailand’s candle-lighting ceremony on Thai PBS's page contained an inappropriate mistranslation. This incident underscores the importance of trustworthy AI and safe and secure AI practices. For those interested in shaping the future of AI governance, join us at HISPI Project Cerebellum to help map incidents like this through our TAIM (Measure) function.

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MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.594, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
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MAP 1.6 — similarity 0.579, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: facebook
Alleged developer: facebook
Alleged harmed parties: live-stream-ceremony-viewers, king-maha-vajiralongkorn

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