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Facebook Issues Apology After Its AI Program Puts ‘Primates’ Label On Video About Black Men

Credit: L) @tweetsbydarci/Twitter; (R) Dado Ruvic/Reuters

From RT.com…

Facebook has promised to fix its auto-generated recommendation system after the company’s AI linked a video that heavily featured black men to primates, shocking viewers.

“We apologize to anyone who may have seen these offensive recommendations,” Facebook said in a statement to the media, adding that the entire topic recommendation feature has been disabled.

Darci Groves, a former content design manager at Facebook, said a friend sent her a screenshot of a video featuring black men, which included the company’s auto-generated prompt asking viewers if they wanted to “keep seeing videos about primates.”

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