LLMLow
Image Classification of Battle Tanks
- Occurred
- Sep 20, 2011
- Published
- Nov 1, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A potentially apocryphal story in which an image classifier was produced to differentiate types of battle tanks, but the resulting model keyed in on environmental attributes rather than tank attributes
Developers
- United States Government
Deployers
- United States Government
Harmed parties
- United States Government
Classification
Category confidence: 80%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: This is a research anecdote about model bias in image classification, not a concrete incident with harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8