LLMMedium
Facebook Provided Offensive Translation for King of Thailand's Birthday Ceremony
- Occurred
- Jul 28, 2020
- Published
- Jul 30, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Facebook's Thai-English translation gave an inappropriate mistranslation on Thai PBS's Facebook live broadcast of the King of Thailand’s candle-lighting birthday ceremony.
Developers
Deployers
Harmed parties
- live-stream ceremony viewers
- King Maha Vajiralongkorn
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI translation error caused diplomatic offense during a live broadcast, representing a notable failure without physical harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8