BiasMedium
Biased Google Image Results
- Occurred
- Mar 31, 2016
- Published
- Jun 10, 2016
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
On June 6, 2016, Google image searches of "three black teenagers" resulted in mostly mugshot images whereas Google image searchers of "three white teenagers" consisted of mostly stock images, suggesting a racial bias in Google's algorithm.
Developers
Deployers
Harmed parties
- Minority groups
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves racial bias in search algorithm results causing discriminatory outcomes.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8