WeChat’s Machine Translation Gave a Racist English Translation for the Chinese Term for “Black Foreigner”
Date: 2017-10-10
Affected: Wechat
Attack vector: other
Category: real-world
Severity: High

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #216: WeChat’s Machine Translation Gave a Racist English Translation for the Chinese Term for “Black Foreigner”. Alleged deployer/developer: Wechat. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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