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YouTube Auto-Moderation Reportedly Banned Women of Sex Tech Conference
- Occurred
- May 2, 2020
- Published
- May 8, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
YouTube’s automated content moderation tool erroneously removed The Women of Sex Tech conference's live-streamed event and banned the conference from the platform, despite not violating the platform’s sexual content policies.
Developers
- YouTube
Deployers
- YouTube
Harmed parties
- YouTube users
- Women of Sex Tech conference organizers
- Women of Sex Tech conference attendants
- Social media users
- Women of Sex Tech
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Automated moderation system failed to distinguish policy-compliant content from violations, causing wrongful removal and ban.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8