Incident 285: Google Lens’s Camera-Based Translation Feature Provided an Offensive Mistranslation of a Book Title in Korean
Description: A book title by Korea’s first minister of culture was mistranslated into an offensive phrase by Google Lens’s camera-based translation feature allegedly due to its training on internet communications and a lack of context.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Google developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Google Lens users.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
285
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2022-07-18
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
incidentdatabase.ai · 2022
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Research and development has a major unsolved problem throughout state of the art AI systems: making systems perform well beyond the environment for which they were engineered. While this problem goes by many names (e.g., distributional shi…
Variants
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