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YouTube content creators

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 2292 Report
Content Using Bestiality Thumbnails Allegedly Evaded YouTube’s Thumbnail Monitoring System

2018-04-23

YouTube’s thumbnail monitoring system was allegedly evaded by content farms such as ones in Cambodia who spike viewership and generate ad revenue using bestiality-themed thumbnails.

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Incident 3942 Report
Social Media's Automated Word-Flagging without Context Shifted Content Creators' Language Use

2017-03-15

TikTok's, YouTube's, Instagram's, and Twitch's use of algorithms to flag certain words devoid of context changed content creators' use of everyday language or discussion about certain topics in fear of their content getting flagged or auto-demonetized by mistake.

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Incidents involved as Deployer

Incident 16371 Report
Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

2026-07-22

Science communicator and YouTuber Hank Green reportedly included an AI-generated scientific image containing factual and mathematical errors in a YouTube educational video. Green later said he knew the image was AI-generated when he used it and removed it after recognizing problems with the graphic.

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Related Entities
Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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YouTube

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 229
    2 Reports

    Content Using Bestiality Thumbnails Allegedly Evaded YouTube’s Thumbnail Monitoring System

  • Incident 394
    2 Reports

    Social Media's Automated Word-Flagging without Context Shifted Content Creators' Language Use

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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Entity

YouTube users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 229
    2 Reports

    Content Using Bestiality Thumbnails Allegedly Evaded YouTube’s Thumbnail Monitoring System

  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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Entity

Twitch

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 394
    2 Reports

    Social Media's Automated Word-Flagging without Context Shifted Content Creators' Language Use

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Entity

TikTok

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 394
    2 Reports

    Social Media's Automated Word-Flagging without Context Shifted Content Creators' Language Use

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Entity

Instagram

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 394
    2 Reports

    Social Media's Automated Word-Flagging without Context Shifted Content Creators' Language Use

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Entity

Twitch content creators

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 394
    2 Reports

    Social Media's Automated Word-Flagging without Context Shifted Content Creators' Language Use

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Entity

TikTok content creators

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 394
    2 Reports

    Social Media's Automated Word-Flagging without Context Shifted Content Creators' Language Use

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Entity

Instagram content creators

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 394
    2 Reports

    Social Media's Automated Word-Flagging without Context Shifted Content Creators' Language Use

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Entity

Synthetic media creators

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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Entity

Science communicators

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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Entity

Hank Green

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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Entity

Content creators

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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Entity

Synthetic media generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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Entity

Synthetic image generation technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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Entity

Social media users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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Entity

Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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Entity

Synthetic media generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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Entity

Synthetic image generation technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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Social media platforms

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1637
    1 Report

    Hank Green Reportedly Used AI-Generated Scientific Image Containing Errors in Educational Video

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