Description: NHK announced the termination of its AI-powered multilingual subtitle service after an automatic translation error rendered "Senkaku Islands" as "Diaoyu Islands," the Chinese designation. The mistake, discovered on February 10th, 2025 during a news segment, led NHK to deem the service inappropriate. The AI-based subtitles, powered by Google Translate, had been in use since 2020.
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View all entitiesAlleged: Google developed an AI system deployed by NHK, which harmed NHK , Government of Japan , NHK viewers , Public trust in the media and Japan-China relations.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Google Translate API , NHK AI subtitle translator and NHK live streaming service
Incident Stats
Incident ID
934
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2025-02-10
Editors
Dummy Dummy
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On the 12th, NHK announced that it had found cases where the "Senkaku Islands" were displayed as the Chinese spelling "Diaoyu Islands" in its service, which provides live streaming of 24-hour English TV broadcasts on its website and app, an…
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NHK announced on the 12th that it would end its multilingual subtitle service for live streaming of English international TV broadcasts on its official website and elsewhere on the 10th. The service had been using Google's artificial intell…
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