Incident 447: Footballer's "X-Rated" Comment Created by Instagram's Mistranslation
Description: Instagram's English translation of a footballer's comment on his wife's post in Spanish made the message seem "racy" and "X-rated," which some fans found amusing.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Instagram developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Spanish-speaking Instagram users.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
447
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2022-12-19
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
Argentina star footballer Alexis Mac posted a controversial X-rated message for his WAG Camila Mayan on Instagram following Argentina’s win over France in the FIFA World Cup 2022 final
Lionel Messi-led Argentina managed to win a second hist…
Argentina midfielder Alexis Mac Allister appeared o leave an X-rated message for his other half on social media after the South American side won the World Cup for the first time since 1986.
In the pandemonium after the game, a jubilant Mac…
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.
