Description: During a live broadcast of NASA's Artemis II launch, KBS reportedly used AI-generated real-time translation subtitles that reportedly mistranslated aviation terms including "roger," "roll," and "pitch" into Korean profanity. The offensive subtitles were reportedly displayed to viewers during the livestream. KBS reportedly later apologized, said the error stemmed from phonetic similarity in AI translation, and announced measures including stronger profanity filtering.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Unknown generative AI developers developed an AI system deployed by Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), which harmed General public of South Korea and Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) viewers.
Alleged implicated AI system: Real-time translation subtitle generation systems
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1446
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2026-04-02
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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KBS has issued an official apology regarding the incident in which profanity was displayed in subtitles during the live broadcast of the Artemis 2 launch.
On the 2nd, KBS stated on its YouTube community page, "During the live broadcast of N…
Variants
A "variant" is an AI incident similar to a known case—it has the same causes, harms, and AI system. Instead of listing it separately, we group it under the first reported incident. Unlike other incidents, variants do not need to have been reported outside the AIID. Learn more from the research paper.
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