WF-LU49QK
Biased Sentiment Analysis
Google Cloud's Natural Language API provided racist, homophobic, amd antisemitic sentiment analyses.
- Date it happened
- 2017-10-26
- Organisation involved
- Product, system or model
- Sentimental Analysis model. Given a phrase, the model outputs a score -1 to 1 which determines the sentiment of the phrase, negative or positive.
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Attribution
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