Posted on 09/05/2021 2:59:41 AM PDT by 11th_VA
Facebook issued an apology on behalf of its artificial intelligence software that asked users watching a video featuring Black men if they wanted to see more "videos about primates." The social media giant has since disabled the topic recommendation feature and says it's investigating the cause of the error, but the video had been online for more than a year.
A Facebook spokesperson told The New York Times on Friday, which first reported on the story, that the automated prompt was an "unacceptable error" and apologized to anyone who came across the offensive suggestion.
The video, uploaded by the Daily Mail on June 27, 2020, documented an encounter between a white man and a group of Black men who were celebrating a birthday. The clip captures the white man allegedly calling 911 to report that he is "being harassed by a bunch of Black men," before cutting to an unrelated video that showed police officers arresting a Black tenant at his own home.
Former Facebook employee Darci Groves tweeted about the error on Thursday after a friend clued her in on the misidentification. She shared a screenshot of the video that captured Facebook's "Keep seeing videos about Primates?" message.
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Humans are primates. Just sayin...
Are they in FB prison?
AI stands for “artificial intelligence” which may not distinguish between black descendents from apes (as postulated by Darwinism) and actual apes.
The AI was possibly not programmed with political correctness or liberal illogic because neither is logical or intelligent.
So perhaps the AI is simply more advanced than the devolving hyenas at Facebook.
M<y wife is a primate. And she says I am too.
Seems to work!
Primates outraged. Demand apology.
I saw this and made me laugh. There are some 500 species in the primate order including humans. Poor AI needs the woke over sensitive module installed.
Wow! Just wait until they have to deal with Amazon Primate..
I saw this and made me laugh. There are some 300 species in the primate order including humans. Poor AI needs the woke over sensitive module installed. Typo in previous post.
Are they now going to send its AI to re-education camp?
If you accept the premise that we evolved from monkeys then you have to accept that some might look like monkeys
There are some striking pictures of people resembling monkeys but now that is not allowed to be said
Dang AI don’t know the difference between primate and porch monkey
This is what the Scopes trial was all about.
Wellll, based on how it goes today, Facebook needs to be canceled immediately! Mark Zuckerberg should be banished from the face of the earth!!!
I thought the science was settled that humans are primates. Does no one remember the memes comparing W to chimpanzees?
GOD MADE US IN HIS IMAGE!
Don't buy that leftist crap.
Archbishops are primates too. Lol.
LOL.
“Well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle.”
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