BiasHigh
Facebook's Auto-Generated Targeting Ad Categories Contained Anti-Semitic Options
- Occurred
- Mar 4, 2014
- Published
- Sep 14, 2017
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Facebook's automated advertising categories generated using users' declared interests contained anti-Semitic categories such as "Jew hater" and "How to burn Jews" which were listed as fields of study.
Developers
Deployers
Harmed parties
- Jewish people
Tags
- response
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Facebook's AI generated hate speech categories, causing significant reputational and social harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8