Facebook’s artificial intelligence hit a racist tag on a video of black men, asking users who had seen the video if they wanted to “keep watching videos about primates.” The video, released in late June by The Daily Mail, represented white people, including police officers, who faced black men, often unforeseen. It showed no primates. The social media company apologized in a statement to The New York Times, calling the AI’s action an “unacceptable mistake”, saying it had so far turned off the feature and promised to investigate ways to “prevent this from happening again”. The mistake is reminiscent of a similar mistake by Google in 2015, when Google Images labeled images of blacks as gorillas.
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