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YouTube's AI Mistakenly Banned Chess Channel over Chess Language Misinterpretation
YouTube's AI-powered hate speech detection system falsely flagged chess content and banned chess creators allegedly due to its misinterpretation of strategy language such as "black," "white," and "attack" as harmful and dangerous.
- Date it happened
- 2020-06-28
- Organisation involved
- YouTube
- Product, system or model
- YouTube's content moderation algorithm
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