The British newspaper reports it The GuardianInstagram’s parent company Meta apologized after its algorithms inserted the word ” terrorist » in the biographies of the profiles of some Palestinian users.
Meta defends “a bug” in the machine translation tool
Meta attributes this to a ” insect » in machine translation. The situation was first reported by 404averageand would affect users whose profile included the word ” Palestinian » written in English, the Palestinian flag emoji and the word “ Hamdulillah » written in Arabic. Automatically translated into English, the sentence became: “ Praise God, Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom “.
As reported by CaretakerTikToker YtKingKhan warned earlier this week, pointing out that different combinations have always produced ” terrorist “.
A representative of Meta, for his part, stated al Caretaker that the problem had been solved. But a glaring lack of transparency regarding the source of this racist translation remains to be filled, according to Fahad Ali, secretary of Electronic Frontiers Australia and a Sydney-based Palestinian, interviewed by our colleagues.
There is real concern about the rise of these digital biases and we need to know where they come from.
Does this come from the level of automation? Is this caused by a problem with a training set? Does this come from the human factor in these tools? There is a lack of clarity on this topic.
This is what we should be trying to resolve and I hope Meta clarifies these points.
Fahad Ali in Guardian Australia
Meta has already been criticized for its biased coverage
As recalled by Caretakerfollowing the recent clashes between Israel and Hamas, Meta was accused of censoring messages of support for Palestine on its platforms.
The company is even accused of banning accounts that support Palestine or depriving their content of visibility, making it less likely to appear in other users’ news feeds. Accusations that Meta denies, citing a general bug in the promotion of live videos and occasional errors in the moderation process rather than a targeted censorship campaign.
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