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   Facebook apologized for a “clearly unacceptable error” after the   
   artificial intelligence on the social media network mislabeled a   
   video of black men as “primates.”   
      
   The Daily Mail originally posted a video to Facebook in June   
   2020 titled: “White man calls cops on black men at marina.” The   
   video has nearly 10 million views on Facebook.   
      
   Facebook users who viewed the video were shown an auto-generated   
   prompt asking if they would like to “keep seeing videos about   
   Primates,” the New York Times reported.   
      
   While humans are indeed primates, most people would associate   
   the word “primates” with animals such as monkeys, lemurs, and   
   apes, and not people.   
      
   Former Facebook content design manager Darci Groves noticed the   
   prompt, and voiced her concerns on Twitter.   
      
   “Um. This ‘keep seeing’ prompt is unacceptable, @Facebook,”   
   Groves wrote in a tweet, which included a screenshot of the   
   prompt. “And despite the video being more than a year old, a   
   friend got this prompt yesterday. Friends at FB, please   
   escalate. This is egregious.”   
      
   Facebook apologized for the prompt, and disabled its topic   
   recommendation feature.   
      
   “This was clearly an unacceptable error and we disabled the   
   entire topic recommendation feature as soon as we realized this   
   was happening so we could investigate the cause and prevent this   
   from happening again,” Facebook spokesperson Dani Lever said in   
   a statement.   
      
   “As we have said, while we have made improvements to our AI we   
   know it’s not perfect and we have more progress to make,” Lever   
   continued. “We apologize to anyone who may have seen these   
   offensive recommendations.”   
      
   In July 2020, Facebook announced that it had launched new equity   
   teams to study if the company’s algorithms are racially biased.   
      
   This isn’t the first time that the use of AI has resulted in   
   questionable results. In 2015, Google’s Photo app tagged photos   
   of black people as “gorillas.” The search engine giant   
   apologized for the error.   
      
   In 2016, Google came under fire again for image search results.   
   At the time, a Google image search for “three black teenagers”   
   resulted in photos of mugshots, but a search of “three white   
   teenagers” resulted in groups of smiling young people.   
      
   In April, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission warned that   
   artificial intelligence technology “can produce troubling   
   outcomes – including discrimination by race or other legally   
   protected classes.” The FTC threatened companies, “Hold yourself   
   accountable– or be ready for the FTC to do it for you.”   
      
   https://dutytoamericanews.com/2021/09/04/facebook-apologizes-for-   
   mislabeling-video-of-black-men-as-primates/   
      
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