2026-09-20T23:22:28.549Z
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Discord's Automated Moderation System Reportedly Wrongfully Banned More Than 8,000 Users Over Benign Images
Discord reportedly wrongfully banned more than 8,000 accounts after its automated image-moderation workflow flagged harmless uploads, including grids, spreadsheets, chessboards, and game images, as prohibited material. Discord said a bug converted temporary upload restrictions into account bans and prevented cleared accounts from being restored automatically. The company later reinstated the affected accounts.
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- reported
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2026-07-07T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2026-07-07T00:00:00.000Z
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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