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Kannada Insulted by Google's Featured Answer as "Ugliest Language in India"

Occurred
Jun 3, 2021
Published
Jun 4, 2021
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

Google's knowledge-graph-powered algorithm showed Kannada in its featured Answer Box when prompted "ugliest language in India," causing outrage from Kannada-speaking people and government.

Developers

  • Google

Deployers

  • Google

Harmed parties

  • the Karnataka government
  • Kannada speakers

Classification

Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%

Rationale: Algorithmic output displayed discriminatory content about a language, causing public outrage and government response.

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

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