Incident #362·AI Safety & Failures
Facebook's Automated Moderation Flagged Gardening Group's Language Use by Mistake
Explainability
Description
Facebook's automated system flagged gardening groups' use of "hoe" and violent language against bugs as a violation by mistake.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
Alleged Developers
Harmed Parties
- wny-gardeners
- gardening-facebook-groups
- facebook-users-in-gardening-groups
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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