A major scandal reeks: Facebook calls black men apes
The social network Facebook is once again caught up in nasty scandal
What happened?
The hype happened
Facebook officials have already apologized for the incident and called it "an unacceptable mistake".
"While we have made great strides in our AI, we know that it is not perfect, and needs constant tweaking. We apologize to anyone who may have seen these offensive recommendations", - said
Facebook spokesperson Dani Lever.
Incidentally, algorithms from major companies have been caught in similar situations more than once. For example, in 2015 Google Photos tagged pictures of dark-skinned men with the tag "gorilla", and a couple of years later Google even censored the word "gorilla" in search queries, and also partially blocked the words "chimp" and "monkey".
Source: The New York Times