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

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.