BiasMedium
Images of Black People Labeled as Gorillas
- Occurred
- Jun 3, 2015
- Published
- May 22, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Google Photos image processing software mistakenly labelled a black couple as "gorillas."
Developers
Deployers
Harmed parties
- Black people
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI system produced racially discriminatory output by mislabeling Black individuals as animals.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8