Facebook over the weekend apologized for putting a "primates" label on a video featuring of black men, according to a report in the New York Times.
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According to the report, the video was posted by a tabloid in June and showed black men clashing with white civilians and police officers. After the video ended, an automatic message popped up reading, "Keep seeing videos about Primates."
The social media giant turned off the artificial intelligence feature that showed the message and apologized for what it called "an unacceptable error" and told the newspaper that it would investigate further so that it doesn't happen again.
Facebook on Saturday did not respond to a request for comment from AP but a company spokeswoman told the NYT that even though Facebook has made improvements to its artificial intelligence, "it's not perfect" and has "more progress to make."
Artificial intelligence has mislabeled people of color before. In 2015, Google apologized after it labeled a photo of two black people as gorillas.
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