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YouTube's AI Mistakenly Banned Chess Channel over Chess Language Misinterpretation
- Occurred
- Jun 28, 2020
- Published
- Feb 22, 2021
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
YouTube's AI-powered hate speech detection system falsely flagged chess content and banned chess creators allegedly due to its misinterpretation of strategy language such as "black," "white," and "attack" as harmful and dangerous.
Developers
- YouTube
Deployers
- YouTube
Harmed parties
- Antonio Radic
- YouTube chess content creators
- YouTube users
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI content moderation system misinterpreted chess terminology as hate speech, causing wrongful bans.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8