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Facebook Gave Vulgar English Translation of Chinese President's Name

Occurred: Jan 18, 2020
Published: Jan 18, 2020
Source: AI Incident Database

Summary

Facebook provided a vulgar Burmese-English translation of the Chinese president's name in posts of an official Burmese politician's Facebook page announcing his visit.

Developers

Facebook

Deployers

Facebook

Harmed parties

Xi Jinping
Aung San Suu Kyi

Classification

Category confidence: 85%

Severity confidence: 90%

Rationale: Facebook's translation system generated inappropriate content, indicating a language model failure.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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