US EditionGoogle apologises for Baftas alert to 'see more' on racial slur
- On Tuesday, Google apologized for sending an offensive push notification linking to a The Hollywood Reporter story about the EE BAFTA Film Awards and said it removed the alert quickly, with only a small subset of users receiving it.
- Safety-Filter failures caused the insertion of the explicit term, with Google saying `This system error did not involve AI` after misreading euphemisms in push notifications.
- Sunday's BAFTA moment saw John Davidson involuntarily shout the N-word, with a screenshot shared by Danny Price captioned `What an interesting Black History month this has turned out to be`.
- BBC and the British Academy of Film and Television apologized Monday, removed the ceremony from iPlayer, and said, `We take full responsibility for putting our guests in a very difficult situation and we apologize to all.`
- The Tourette Association of America noted roughly 10% experience coprolalia, while Google said it will improve guardrails and Apple scrapped AI alerts last year after similar issues.
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Google Apologizes for Sending the Worst Push Notification You Can Possibly Imagine
Disaster tends to strike when you let automated systems distribute news, especially on sensitive topics. The latest case in point: how Google’s automated news alerts accidentally ended up throwing more fuel onto an already hurtful racial slur controversy that unfolded at the BAFTA awards this weekend. As Deadline reported, Google pushed out a notification linking to an article with the headline, “How the Tourette’s Fallout Unfolded at the BAFTA …
Google apologises for news alert about BAFTAs racial slur
Google has apologised after a computer-generated news alert about the BAFTA Film Awards racial slur incident included the N-word. Deadline reports that Google pushed out a notification linking to a The Hollywood Reporter article, which had the headline: “How the Tourette’s Fallout Unfolded at the BAFTA Film Awards.” The alert invited readers to “see more on” and then included the N-word. The notification was screenshotted and posted by Instagram…
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