Incident 453: Twitter's AI Moderation Tool Misidentified Rockets as Pornography
Description: Twitter's automated content moderation misidentified images of rocket launches as pornographic content, prompting incorrect account suspensions.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Twitter developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Twitter Users.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
453
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2023-01-03
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
businessinsider.com · 2023
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A former Twitter employee said Elon Musk's company can mistake photos of rockets as intimate content because of the platform's reliance on machine learning tools, per Quartz.
The confusion resulted in several Twitter accounts posting about …
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