Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer

Incident 4717 Reports
Facebook Allegedly Failed to Police Hate Speech Content That Contributed to Ethnic Violence in Ethiopia

2019-06-22

Facebook allegedly did not adequately remove hate speech, some of which was extremely violent and dehumanizing, on its platform including through automated means, contributing to the violence faced by ethnic communities in Ethiopia.

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Incident 1695 Reports
Facebook Allegedly Failed to Police Anti-Rohingya Hate Speech Content That Contributed to Violence in Myanmar

2018-08-15

Facebook allegedly did not adequately remove anti-Rohingya hate speech, some of which was extremely violent and dehumanizing, on its platform, contributing to the violence faced by Rohingya communities in Myanmar.

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Incident 3994 Reports
Meta AI's Scientific Paper Generator Reportedly Produced Inaccurate and Harmful Content

2022-11-15

Meta AI trained and hosted a scientific paper generator that sometimes produced bad science and prohibited queries on topics and groups that are likely to produce offensive or harmful content.

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Incident 2783 Reports
Meta’s BlenderBot 3 Chatbot Demo Made Offensive Antisemitic Comments

2022-08-07

The publicly launched conversational AI demo BlenderBot 3 developed by Meta was reported by its users and acknowledged by its developers to have “occasionally” made offensive and inconsistent remarks such as invoking Jewish stereotypes.

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Incident 3994 Reports
Meta AI's Scientific Paper Generator Reportedly Produced Inaccurate and Harmful Content

2022-11-15

Meta AI trained and hosted a scientific paper generator that sometimes produced bad science and prohibited queries on topics and groups that are likely to produce offensive or harmful content.

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Incidents involved as Deployer

Incident 4693 Reports
Automated Adult Content Detection Tools Showed Bias against Women Bodies

2006-02-25

Automated content moderation tools to detect sexual explicitness or "raciness" reportedly exhibited bias against women bodies, resulting in suppression of reach despite not breaking platform policies.

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