Incident 141: California Police Turned on Music to Allegedly Trigger Instagram’s DCMA to Avoid Being Live-Streamed
Description: A police officer in Beverly Hills played copyrighted music on his phone when realizing that his interactions were being recorded on a livestream, allegedly hoping the Instagram's automated copyright detection system to end or mute the stream.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Instagram developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Sennett Devermont and Beverly Hills citizens.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
141
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2021-02-05
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam
GMF Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsKnown AI Goal
Copyrighted Content Detection
Potential AI Technology
Acoustic Fingerprint, Spectrogram
Known AI Technical Failure
Adversarial Data, Gaming Vulnerability
Potential AI Technical Failure
Lack of Adversarial Robustness, Black Box
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline

We don’t know if Beverly Hills Police Department (BHPD) Sergeant Billy Fair practices Santeria (or owns a crystal ball), but we know he listens to the Sublime song of the same name. We know this because he’s become a viral sensation on Inst…

Last Friday, a man entered the Beverly Hills police department, only to be treated to a mini DJ set that could potentially get his Instagram account banned.
Sennett Devermont was at the department to file a form to obtain body camera footag…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.