Incident 311: YouTube Auto-Moderation Mistakenly Banned Women of Sex Tech Conference
Description: YouTube’s automated content moderation tool erroneously removed The Women of Sex Tech conference’s live-streamed event and banned the conference from the platform, despite not violating the platform’s sexual content policies.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: YouTube developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Women of Sex Tech conference attendants and Women of Sex Tech conference organizers.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
311
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2020-05-02
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
YouTube is blaming its auto-moderation tool for removing a live-stream of a women's sex conference.
According to a report from the Daily Dot, the conference, called Women of Sex Tech, had its live feed auto-banned from YouTube just four min…
The Women of Sex Tech conference went virtual for the first time in its five-year history last weekend, no thanks to YouTube.
The platform’s automated moderation controls automatically banned the sex tech conference the night before the eve…
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.
