Google’s YouTube Kids App Presents Inappropriate Content

May 19, 2015

The HISPI Project Cerebellum AI incident database highlights a recent incident involving YouTube's content filtering and recommendation algorithms, which inadvertently exposed children to disturbing and inappropriate videos on the YouTube Kids app. This underscores the importance of trustworthy AI governance and harm prevention strategies for creating guardrails for AI systems that cater to young audiences.

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Alleged deployer: youtube
Alleged developer: youtube
Alleged harmed parties: children

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1

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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