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Incident 394: Social Media's Automated Word-Flagging without Context Shifted Content Creators' Language Use

Description: TikTok's, YouTube's, Instagram's, and Twitch's use of algorithms to flag certain words devoid of context changed content creators' use of everyday language or discussion about certain topics in fear of their content getting flagged or auto-demonetized by mistake.

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Alleged: YouTube , Twitch , TikTok and Instagram developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed YouTube content creators , Twitch content creators , TikTok content creators and Instagram content creators.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
394
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2017-03-15
Editors
Khoa Lam
Applied Taxonomies
MIT

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Machine-Classified
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Risk Subdomain

A further 23 subdomains create an accessible and understandable classification of hazards and harms associated with AI
 

1.3. Unequal performance across groups

Risk Domain

The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies risks into seven AI risk domains: (1) Discrimination & toxicity, (2) Privacy & security, (3) Misinformation, (4) Malicious actors & misuse, (5) Human-computer interaction, (6) Socioeconomic & environmental harms, and (7) AI system safety, failures & limitations.
 
  1. Discrimination and Toxicity

Entity

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AI

Timing

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Post-deployment

Intent

Whether the risk is presented as occurring as an expected or unexpected outcome from pursuing a goal
 

Unintentional

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Incident OccurrenceInternet ‘algospeak’ is changing our language in real time, from ‘nip nops’ to ‘le dollar bean’Decoding what algospeak really means for content creators
Internet ‘algospeak’ is changing our language in real time, from ‘nip nops’ to ‘le dollar bean’

Internet ‘algospeak’ is changing our language in real time, from ‘nip nops’ to ‘le dollar bean’

washingtonpost.com

Decoding what algospeak really means for content creators

Decoding what algospeak really means for content creators

fastcompany.com

Internet ‘algospeak’ is changing our language in real time, from ‘nip nops’ to ‘le dollar bean’
washingtonpost.com · 2022

"Algospeak" is becoming increasingly common across the Internet as people seek to bypass content moderation filters on social media platforms such as TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Twitch.

Algospeak refers to code words or turns of phrase u…

Decoding what algospeak really means for content creators
fastcompany.com · 2022

If you've noticed the use of newly invented words cropping up on digital platforms or words used out of context or misspelled, it's not a new kind of social media slang—it's algospeak.

Terms like "unalive" take the place of "dead" or "kill.…

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