Facebook Apologizes for AI Labeling Video of Black Men 'Primates'

[dannno]

Facebook AI mislabels video of Black men as 'Primates' content
The social network has apologized for the 'unacceptable error.'

Facebook has apologized after its AI slapped an egregious label on a video of Black men. According to The New York Times, users who recently watched a video posted by Daily Mail featuring Black men saw a prompt asking them if they'd like to "[k]eep seeing videos about Primates." The social network apologized for the "unacceptable error" in a statement sent to the publication. It also disabled the recommendation feature that was responsible for the message as it looks into the cause to prevent serious errors like this from happening again.

https://www.engadget.com/facebook-ai...044255703.html

[Mach]

https://www.engadget.com/facebook-ai...044255703.html

Could you ever imagine politically correct computer programming?

[Dickens]

The intrigues of Gnu-Klax-Klan.

[acptulsa]

Could you ever imagine politically correct computer programming?

Well, as political correctness is one of the few things less logical than the Engrish--er, I mean English language, no. But I'm sure the comedy will only get funnier from here.

[Occam's Banana]

Could you ever imagine politically correct computer programming?

The Woke certainly can (surprise, surprise):

https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1279309239136198656

https://twitter.com/motherboard/stat...15385180491776

[PAF]

The Woke certainly can (surprise, surprise):

https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1279309239136198656

https://twitter.com/motherboard/stat...15385180491776

You are definitely, without a doubt, the King Of All Twitter Looker Up-er-ers.

[Anti Federalist]

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

LOL

[Mach]

The Woke certainly can (surprise, surprise):

https://twitter.com/motherboard/stat...15385180491776

This is so ridiculous it is hard to believe that this is even true, the real joke on me is that, this happened back in 2018.

"Master/slave" terminology has been removed from the Python programming language

Part of a comment over there.... "next up, changing the name motherboard to nonbinaryboard, ya know, just in case the board ain't a she or something...."


The companies that do this stuff are purposely ruining America.


"You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Occam's Banana again."

[kahless]

Can we meme into real activism the need for them to pay $138.227 billion in reparations? (Facebook 2021 valuation)

If it actually happened then claim it is not enough, "I want my money", directed at Zuck to the tune $134 billion of his fortune.

Where is JG Wentworth when you need him.

[acptulsa]

Can we meme into real activism the need for them to pay $138.227 billion in reparations? (Facebook 2021 valuation)

Let Zuckerberg pay it out of his own pocket. I never called anyone a primate in my life, nor have I created something which did.

[kahless]

Let Zuckerberg pay it out of his own pocket. I never called anyone a primate in my life, nor have I created something which did.

Amen brother.

[CCTelander]

So, Zuckerberg and Facebook are facing cancellation then, right? No? Color me shocked.

[enhanced_deficit]

Is following pattern entirely accidental?

This controversial media co.'s apology might carry more weight if it stopped enabling and partenering with the "some races are more supremacist than others" dogma based mideast country that is notorious for racially motivated policies and was recently accused of racial vaccine switcheroo malpractice (of giving birth control shots to african jews without their consent), training cops of the US state where George Floyd died in brutality tactics, denying equal rights to people of all races.. and so on.





Peres, Mark Zuckerberg launch Israeli president's international Facebook page

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner 'blessed' by top Israeli rabbi who compared black people to 'monkeys'
independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-israel-jewish-rabbi-yitzhak-yosef-racist-us-embassy-jerusalem-latest-a8350536.html

Israeli Rabbi says hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for US policy towards Israeli settlemets
The Associated Press
Sep 7, 2005
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a former chief rabbi and the spiritual leader of the ultra-Orthodox Shas movement, said on Wednesday that Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for U.S. President George W. Bush's support for Israel's Gaza pullout.
A study of hurricane Katrina evacuees to Houston (who had stayed behind during the storm) found that 93% were black.

Where are the condemnations of Hurricane Harvey or Ida as ‘God’s punishment’?

Ida Kills Dozens in NYC, NJ: What We Know About the Victims
nbcnewyork
Sep 2, 2021 — As of Saturday afternoon, at least 43 deaths had been confirmed in and around New York City and New Jersey.

Do big tech mistakes have a pattern?


Facebook mistakenly labels black men 'primates'
04/09/2021

Facial recognition software has been blasted by civil rights advocates who point out problems with accuracy, particularly it comes to people who are not white
Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV AFP
San Francisco (AFP)

Facebook on Friday said it disabled its topic recommendation feature after it mistook Black men for "primates" in video at the social network.
A Facebook spokesperson called it a "clearly unacceptable error" and said the recommendation software involve was taken offline.
"We apologize to anyone who may have seen these offensive recommendations," Facebook said in response to an AFP inquiry.
"We disabled the entire topic recommendation feature as soon as we realized this was happening so we could investigate the cause and prevent this from happening again."
Facial recognition software has been blasted by civil rights advocates who point out problems with accuracy, particularly it comes to people who are not white.
Facebook users in recent days who watched a British tabloid video featuring Black men were show an auto-generated prompt asking if they would like to "keep seeing videos about Primates," according to the New York Times.
The June 2020 video in question, posted by the Daily Mail, is titled "White man calls cops on black men at marina."

Google apologizes for results of 'Michelle Obama' image search
November 25, 2009
An offensive altered photo of Michelle Obama disappeared from Google search results
(CNN) -- For most of the past week, when someone typed "Michelle Obama" in the popular search engine Google, one of the first images that came up was a picture of the American first lady altered to resemble a monkey.
On Wednesday morning, the racially offensive image appeared to have been removed from any Google Image searches for "Michelle Obama."