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Tumblr Automated Pornography-Detecting Algorithms Erroneously Flagged Inoffensive Images as Explicit

Occurred
Dec 3, 2018
Published
Dec 3, 2018
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

Tumblr’s automated tools to identify adult content were reported to have incorrectly flagged inoffensive images as explicit, following its announcement to ban all adult content on the platform.

Developers

  • Tumblr

Deployers

  • Tumblr

Harmed parties

  • Tumblr content creators
  • Tumblr users

Classification

Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%

Rationale: Automated content moderation system incorrectly flagged inoffensive images as explicit, causing unintended harm to users.

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

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