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Facebook has apologized for the 'unacceptable error' its AI software made when it recommended more 'videos of primates' to users while they were watching a video featuring Black men.

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theetishamarie Facebook like white supremacists run run through the and platform. And then make it difficult for African-Americans to expose racism and injustice in America.

theetishamarie I am not surprised by this revelation about Facebook.

Is this not just some Liberal bias atplay? Humans ARE primates: If someone gets their nose tweaked by being referred to as a primate, perhaps they ought to go back to school and study anthropology a while. Now, the facts are simple- but so are the minds.

Ok. I'm done with the internet today

Regular disrespect to blacks in your schools to your online platform no surprise thanks anyway

Why not quit spying using algorithms and let me see what I choose to…when did you become all knowing god?!?!

JesseCoffey15 WTFMoments

How we know Facebook was calling the black guys 'primates'? Maybe Facebook was calling the white guys primates.

Sometimes, apologies are not worth a damn. Do better!

Doesn’t anybody wonder why anyone would want to offend a segment of the population in such a fashion? All they had to do was report it to Facebook (I’m no friend of this app) and made sure the corrections took place.

WTF?!?! Daily reminder to DeleteFacebook

This is the saddest thing I've read today. 'Unacceptable' is a start. Algorithmicjustice, transparency and equity really cannot wait.

Defund NPR NOW!!!

What the hell?

🤭😙😋😛😜😝😅😂🤣

OMG. Is this real?

Wow!! Now who’s racist!?

I wouldn't even have noticed because I watch both types of videos.

Error, I think not! Was built in!

Humans are primates.

I'd like an apology from Facebook for restricting my account due to the term 'kick your ass' when I jokingly had fun with a school chum of 50 years over him calling me 'Popeye'. My account was private and all 32 friends I had were those I went to school with and coworkers.

Terrible mistake but what about the clothes, that had to be a factor . And that is why auto driven cars are killing people. AI cannot substitute a human eye, because there is no previous knowledge enough to analyze, compare and define what is seen. Any teacher knows that.

Kasıtlı yaptığına şüphem yok.

Racism? Spreading disinformation? Facebook truly does it all… 😡

Lol AI is racist AF too !

Wow, maybe this will make people get off Facebook and Instagram…oh wait

Facebook needs to put itself in Facebook Jail for a year

🤣 My guess is the AI confused the dark skin with fur. Maybe the pictures used for the training were in grayscale and low resolution.

WTF Glad I’m off Facebook

Apparently this has been a constant battle with software. Prior to that, there were and still are difficulties just taking pictures and having the same amount of detail with dark skin as those with lighter skin. I don't think this error was intentional.

So wrong on so many levels…. And What if Facebook’s AI is running an experiment and we are the lab mice?

Im basically a luddite but um, dont humans build and teach AIs or do i watch too many movies?

While working at IBM helping with the practical application of AI in business I would often remind people of the word “artificial” in AI and it’s still people who write the code so just reflective of what already exists.

Garbage in, Garbage out.

The vast majority of liberals ascribe to evolution, which classifies humans as 'primates.' Yet, they are triggered by this. SMH

This kind of crap is why I stopped using facebook.

And I get “jailed” for saying an ugly person is ugly. SMDH

Every time I report a racist and/or sexist comment I am told it does not violate their 'community standards.' It is clear these standards were created & maintained by [white] men.

WTAF

I've been ranting about Facebook 's garbage facebookai because I'm one transgression away from whatever comes next after a 30-day suspension. All of this due to the computer code that lacks the meaning of context.

This exactly why I left Facebook. It’s become nothing but a far right cesspool. Look at who trends on there.

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! 😂😂😂😂😂😂 fu Facebook

the comments on this are funny. the radia left actually thinks Facebook is right wing, and that it protects the right 🤣🤣🤣

It wasn't a mistake. AI is built and developed by people, people who are biased, whether intentional or unconsciously driven by discrimination patterns of thought that they learned.

Should have coded critical race theory into the ai

More reason to shut it down.

Because we're not primates anymore! her/he/them/it

🤦🏽‍♀️

Racist a$$ algorithm

Facebook AI is a joke. SO many get banned for ridiculous reasons

I'd like to go ahead right now & apologize for every unacceptable error I've ever made & will ever make - there, I feel better now

Break it up or shut it down. It is accelerating the doomsday clock and killing people every day…

'sorry if your feelings got hurt, but we can't help it if our software is accidentally a dick sometimes lol'

This cannot be real… WTF

i hope the primates accepted the apology, no one wants to be lumped in with those violent animals.

Can't believe people still use Topix...I mean Facebook.

DeleteFacebook

Sure, I'm on a 60 day restriction right now for a couple of memes I posted over two years ago, but this is ok. 🙄

So many other reasons to not be on Facebook

Whatever Zuckerberg.

drDendere 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳

Come on NPR first this isn’t news second it’s devisive.. and you know it. So.. what’s the point?

Just wow

Garbage in, garbage out.

See...

People have been saying FB is racist for years, but it takes something this blatant to get a news story on it.

Not TheOnion

I am a Primate. However I do understand it was inappropriate. I’m sure AI will get better over time but it’s not the first time I’ve read of unexpected results from various AI systems.

I’m so tired. We’re all so tired.

😲🤦‍♀️

Who has facebook anymore?

Can we go ahead and admit that Mark Zuckerberg is a white super most. All those meetings with Trump. All the white nationalist and Qanon on Facebook.

This is INSANE.

oh, there's a lot they have to apologize for.....

wooooowwwwww

I deleted facebook about 6 months ago, life is better without it. The more social media I delete, the better life gets… who’d have thought huh, there’s a real world out there… it’s pretty amazing, don’t just take my word though. Try it out yourself guys…

CodedBias

serious ai error ?: JoeBiden' style

Another reason to keep my account disabled

Maybe it’s time to ditch the heavy reliance on AI.

Just shut it down.

Perhaps a boycott will help facebook

Sure... The AI did it.

WTF

Unacceptable error? To🔥hell with you Facebook and Zuckerberg. I should’ve trusted my instincts long ago. Thankfully I gave up Facebook when Trump became the president; unbelievable. Their role in allowing and even supporting misinformation is unforgivable.

Omg that appalling

npr who should I seek out for a terrible thing Facebook is doing to myself which is resulting I'm truly significant damage to more then 1 of the children I work with with moderate to severe learning disabilities. I've called I've tweeted I've tried to contact investors relation

Has anyone used the translate option? Why are they apologising this once? The AI isn't great. Understandably, it isn't their fault.

I doubt it’s an error. A.I is software written by human beings.

AdijayKayiza

Ah so it’s AI’s fault... sure🤦🏻‍♀️

Amazing how much FB f$cks up and suffers no consequences.

It’s how Zuck refers to them in private.

LOL. See, there really IS internalized racism. Even the computers have it!

Facebook is a shit platform that will eventually fall under the weight of its own bullsh** racist algorithms..

Quit Facebook. Feel better.

Where is the cancel mob on this one

Humans/people irrespective of race are members of the primate group or family. People who don't think humans are animals must be classifying them as vegetables or minerals. That and they have never seen the news on how humans behave. WE are a bunch of animals. No apology required

tariqnasheed Facebook using the AI Excuse where they blame 'computerized racism' on the'aLgORiThM'. Facebook has a long history of being anti black.

But they are primates. I am too. We all are.

Oh my god 🤦‍♂️😂 you just can’t do that wtf

drDendere Me I will take the apology as a Ugandan. Wama webale kwetonda.

Wow thats racist!! Why doesn’t the BLM movement burn FB down in a peaceful protest like fashion? Sounds like FB gonna buy their way out of this debacle.

So, AI is racist. It’s not like we all didn’t know silicone valley is deeply racist. I know California pretends it’s not, but it is.

WHAT

Sounds like Trumplican Facebook users may not be the best role models for Machine Learning.

Sad state of affairs when AI starts autonomously developing racist tendencies.

Facebook is evil and needs to be heavily regulated. I had an account for a brief period way back in 20011 and it was hell to get it 100% canceled. Now it would be almost impossible, right? The ID theft must go on I guess. Do forget they helped elect Trump

? WTF 😒

We've known how to properly train AI to avoid this crap and FB just didn't care.

An error?!😣

DeleteFacebook

Shut it down. Everyone, please.

Facebook is just a reflection of us, and parts of it are not pretty racist

Sure, we believe Facebook, - never

This reads like an onion article, ffs

The algorithm is biased...rember the creators were white men 😒🤨

This company is disgusting

What the fuck?

Divorce Facebook!

Life imitating art again. 'Animal Incident'

literally WTF!

Burn Facebook

Oh my god

Yo Mark Z how’s your social experiment going ?

Sucking FB.

Yeah. An error. 😒

Delete this harmful app. For those who don’t think they can make the break, yes you can. You can even download all your content and save it before deleting forever. It’s been three years since I deleted Zuckerberg’s irresponsible and dangerous site

deletefacebook

These don’t look like errors to , they are intentional, and they know what they are doing

What fresh hell is this?

This is why diversity matters in hiring. It can help erase unconscious bias

LOL

This “mistake “ of theirs continues to happen so I’m going to ignore it and this company

A companion to this article:

WTF? deletefacebook

Sure.

No good enough. AI sucks.

HOW was the AI preprogrammed that way in the first place?

It’s so cute how Facebook simply “apologizes”

Code bias, probably built by white, male, engineers

Is this problematic?

Glad to know they make errors, They still haven't apologized to me for their juvenile rules,

Facebook strikes again.

Lol.

Wtf...

Sure. We can keep pretending FB isn’t a racist, sexist, homophobic company.

Next, Facebook can apologize for restricting my account for mentioning the word 'arrows' to a friend who works as a professional Robin Hood. (No, seriously. This really happened. The website's algorithms really are that broken.)

good

😳😠 Wow! Just. WOW! Apology NOT accepted!

Interesting story.

It's not an error, it's literally by design. 🙄

It’s too strange to be accidental…

DeleteFacebook fuckzuckerberg

makes sense if you think about it tho

An apology is NOT enough.

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