BiasMedium
Facebook's AI Put "Primates" Label on Video Featuring Black Men
- Occurred
- Jun 27, 2020
- Published
- Sep 3, 2021
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Facebook's AI mislabeled video featuring Black men as a video about "primates," resulting in an offensive prompt message for users who watched the video.
Developers
Deployers
Harmed parties
- Black people
- Facebook users
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI system exhibited racial bias by mislabeling Black men as primates, causing offensive user experience.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8