BiasMedium
Amazon Censors Gay Books
- Occurred
- May 23, 2008
- Published
- Apr 12, 2009
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Amazon's book store "cataloging error" led to books containing gay and lesbian themes to lose their sales ranking, therefore losing visibility on the sales platform.
Developers
- Amazon
Deployers
- Amazon
Harmed parties
- Amazon customers
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Algorithmic error disproportionately affected LGBTQ+ content, constituting discriminatory impact.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8