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Facebook apologises after AI labels video with black men ‘about primates’ | South China Morning Post

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Facebook has issued an apology after its artificial intelligence (AI) technology mislabelled a video featuring black men in altercations with white police officers and civilians as “about primates”. After social media users finished the clip, published by Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper earlier this week, they received a prompt asking if they would like to “keep seeing videos about primates”. “This was clearly an unacceptable error and we disabled the entire topic recommendation feature as soon as we realised this was happening so we could investigate the cause and prevent this from happening again,” Facebook spokeswoman Dani Lever said in a…

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