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SOURCE-LINKED INTELLIGENCE
YouTube's AI Mistakenly Banned Chess Channel over Chess Language Misinterpretation
YouTube's AI-powered hate speech detection system falsely flagged chess content and banned chess creators allegedly due to its misinterpretation of strategy language such as "black," "white," and "attack" as harmful and dangerous.
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- incident-report
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- reported
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2020-06-28T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2021-02-18T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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