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Google’s YouTube Kids App Presents Inappropriate Content

Occurred
May 19, 2015
Published
Mar 27, 2017
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

YouTube’s content filtering and recommendation algorithms exposed children to disturbing and inappropriate videos.

Developers

  • YouTube

Deployers

  • YouTube

Harmed parties

  • Minors

Tags

  • response

Classification

Category confidence: 80%
Severity confidence: 90%

Rationale: Algorithmic failure in content recommendation exposed children to inappropriate material.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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