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Incident 415: Facebook Provided Offensive Translation for King of Thailand's Birthday Ceremony

Description: Facebook's Thai-English translation gave an inappropriate mistranslation on Thai PBS's Facebook live broadcast of the King of Thailand’s candle-lighting birthday ceremony.

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Alleged: Facebook developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed live-stream ceremony viewers and King Maha Vajiralongkorn.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
415
Report Count
5
Incident Date
2020-07-28
Editors
Khoa Lam
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MIT

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Machine-Classified
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Risk Subdomain

A further 23 subdomains create an accessible and understandable classification of hazards and harms associated with AI
 

7.3. Lack of capability or robustness

Risk Domain

The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies risks into seven AI risk domains: (1) Discrimination & toxicity, (2) Privacy & security, (3) Misinformation, (4) Malicious actors & misuse, (5) Human-computer interaction, (6) Socioeconomic & environmental harms, and (7) AI system safety, failures & limitations.
 
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Incident Reports

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Thai PBS clarifies inappropriate messages Claims that Facebook's automatic translation system has problems
+2
Facebook offers sincere apology to the Thai people over auto-translate error
Lost in translation: Facebook’s royal translation error
Thai PBS clarifies inappropriate messages Claims that Facebook's automatic translation system has problems

Thai PBS clarifies inappropriate messages Claims that Facebook's automatic translation system has problems

d.dailynews.co.th

Facebook offers sincere apology to the Thai people over auto-translate error

Facebook offers sincere apology to the Thai people over auto-translate error

thaipbsworld.com

FB told to apologise for 'mistranslation'

FB told to apologise for 'mistranslation'

bangkokpost.com

Facebook under investigation over translation blunder as minister criticises the social network

Facebook under investigation over translation blunder as minister criticises the social network

thaiexaminer.com

Lost in translation: Facebook’s royal translation error

Lost in translation: Facebook’s royal translation error

tankytech.net

Thai PBS clarifies inappropriate messages Claims that Facebook's automatic translation system has problems
d.dailynews.co.th · 2020
AI Translated

Thai PBS has published a case statement. Inappropriate messages appearing on Facebook live broadcast Candle lighting ceremony Confirmed that it was a problem with the text translation system from Facebook itself.

On July 9, the Thai PBS Fac…

Facebook offers sincere apology to the Thai people over auto-translate error
thaipbsworld.com · 2020

Facebook has admitted to an error in its automatic translation, from English to Thai, and has offered a profound apology to the Thai people.

The mistake appeared on Thai PBS’s Facebook page on July 28th, His Majesty the King’s birthday.

In …

FB told to apologise for 'mistranslation'
bangkokpost.com · 2020

The Digital Economy and Society (DES) Ministry has sent an urgent letter to Facebook in Singapore and Thailand, demanding the social media giant take responsibility over a mistranslated headline from English into Thai about the live broadca…

Facebook under investigation over translation blunder as minister criticises the social network
thaiexaminer.com · 2020

Social media giant Facebook found itself under investigation this week by the Crime Technology Division of the Royal Thai Police following an inadvertent blunder during a ceremony for the King’s birthday on Tuesday which led to a message be…

Lost in translation: Facebook’s royal translation error
tankytech.net · 2021

On 28 July 2020, widely-followed media outlet, Thai PBS, posted a live stream of the candle-lighting ceremony celebrating His Majesty the King’s birthday on its Facebook page.

The caption of the live stream, said:

“[Live] Candle-lighting ce…

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