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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
Google
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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