Incident #311·AI Safety & Failures
YouTube Auto-Moderation Reportedly Banned Women of Sex Tech Conference
Explainability
Description
YouTube’s automated content moderation tool erroneously removed The Women of Sex Tech conference's live-streamed event and banned the conference from the platform, despite not violating the platform’s sexual content policies.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- youtube
Alleged Developers
- youtube
Harmed Parties
- youtube-users
- women-of-sex-tech-conference-organizers
- women-of-sex-tech-conference-attendants
- social-media-users
- women-of-sex-tech
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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