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(Snippet Text: YouTube's overeager AI might have misinterpreted a conversation about chess as racist language. , Related Classifications: Hate Speech Detection), (Snippet Text: Using the software on over 680,000 comments taken from five popular YouTube chess channels, they found 82 percent of the comments flagged in a sample set didn't include any obvious racist language or hate speech., Related Classifications: Hate Speech Detection)
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Taxonomy DetailsIncident Number
144
AI Tangible Harm Level Notes
It is possible that Antonio Radic may have lost some revenue from having his YouTube channel suspended for 24 hours, given its popularity. However, this is not explicitly mentioned in the reports.
Special Interest Intangible Harm
no
Date of Incident Year
2020
Risk Subdomain
7.3. Lack of capability or robustness
Risk Domain
- AI system safety, failures, and limitations
Entity
AI
Timing
Post-deployment
Intent
Unintentional
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
Online discussions about black and white chess pieces are confusing artificial intelligence algorithms trained to detect racism and other hate speech, according to new research.
Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University began invest…
YouTube's overeager AI might have misinterpreted a conversation about chess as racist language.
Last summer, a YouTuber who produces popular chess videos saw his channel blocked for including what the site called 'harmful and dangerous' con…
"The Queen's Gambit," the recent TV mini-series about a chess master, may have stirred increased interest in chess, but a word to the wise: social media talk about game-piece colors could lead to misunderstandings, at least for hate-speech …
It might be unbelievable at first that a YouTube algorithm has detected a chess discussion as 'racist' and flagged it for punishment. In the case of the chess YouTuber, he was blocked by the video-streaming company for the alleged, sensitiv…
The world’s most popular YouTube chess channel was blocked after artificial algorithms set up to detect racist content and hate speech mistook discussion about black and white chess pieces as racism, reports Independent UK.
On June 28, 2020…
Last June, Antonio Radić, the host of a YouTube chess channel with more than a million subscribers, was live-streaming an interview with the grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura when the broadcast suddenly cut out.
Instead of a lively discussion abo…
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