02-20-2021, 08:13 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bi...m-56123592
Facebook has apologised for censuring a Black Country history group after members discussed a traditional local dish.
The group's administrator said she had "sleepless nights" after the account was threatened with deletion.
The social media giant has since accepted the wording it targeted was used in culinary context.
Faggots and peas is a traditional dish served in a part of the West Midlands that includes Wolverhampton, West Bromwich and Dudley.
"Our systems clearly made a mistake here," a Facebook spokesperson said, accepting a homophobic slur was not the intention.
Wow... I can only assume that this was either bad AI, or plain ignorance on the part of their human staff (or both
). Some words are offensive in one sense and innocuous in another - and, AI can be very bad at telling them apart (even in blindingly obvious cases like this).
I'm glad Facebook apologised - but, it's sad that the group's administrator was put through this to begin with
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Facebook has apologised for censuring a Black Country history group after members discussed a traditional local dish.
The group's administrator said she had "sleepless nights" after the account was threatened with deletion.
The social media giant has since accepted the wording it targeted was used in culinary context.
Faggots and peas is a traditional dish served in a part of the West Midlands that includes Wolverhampton, West Bromwich and Dudley.
"Our systems clearly made a mistake here," a Facebook spokesperson said, accepting a homophobic slur was not the intention.
Wow... I can only assume that this was either bad AI, or plain ignorance on the part of their human staff (or both
). Some words are offensive in one sense and innocuous in another - and, AI can be very bad at telling them apart (even in blindingly obvious cases like this). I'm glad Facebook apologised - but, it's sad that the group's administrator was put through this to begin with
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