Incident #282·AI Safety & Failures
Facebook’s Algorithm Mistook an Advertisement of Onions as Sexual Suggestive Content
Explainability
Description
Facebook’s content moderation algorithm misidentified and removed a Canadian business’s advertisement containing a photo of onions as products of overtly sexual content, which was later reinstated after review.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
Alleged Developers
Harmed Parties
- the-seed-company-by-e.w.-gaze
- businesses-on-facebook
Classification
Risk Domain
AI Safety & FailuresRisk Subdomain
7.3. Lack of capability or robustness
MIT Risk Profile
AIUnintentionalPost-deployment
Topics
Explainability
Source
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