LLMMedium
YouTube's Algorithms Failed to Remove Violating Content Related to Suicide and Self-Harm
- Occurred
- Feb 4, 2019
- Published
- Feb 5, 2019
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Terms-of-service-violating videos related to suicide and self-harm reportedly bypassed YouTube’s content moderation algorithms, allegedly resulting in exposure of graphic content to young users via recommended videos.
Developers
- YouTube
Deployers
- YouTube
Harmed parties
- YouTube young users
- YouTube users
Classification
Category confidence: 70%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Algorithmic failure in content moderation led to harmful content exposure, fitting LLM/AI safety incident.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8