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Facebook has issued a public apology to DailyMail.com and MailOnline for adding an AI-generated label of 'primates' to a news video from the website that featured black men.
A Facebook spokesman admitted the error was 'unacceptable' on Saturday, telling DailyMail.com: 'We apologize to anyone who may have seen these offensive recommendations and to the Daily Mail for its content being subject to it.'
'This was an algorithmic error on Facebook and did not reflect the content of the Daily Mail's post,' the company admitted.
At issue is a news video that the Mail posted to Facebook on June 27, 2020 which depicts a white man appearing to harass a black man and calling the police on him.
Facebook has publicly apologized to DailyMail.com and MailOnline for adding an AI-generated label referencing 'primates' to this Mail news video depicting black men
At issue is a news video that DailyMail.com posted to Facebook on June 27, which depicts a white man appearing to harass a black man. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is seen above
Though the video has nothing to do with monkeys or other primates, Facebook's AI-generated prompt asked viewers if they would like to 'keep seeing videos about Primates,' horrifying and offending users of the social network.
Initially, Facebook failed to notify the Mail of its blunder when it was spotted by the New York Times, and the social media giant's statement to the Times did not definitively specify that Facebook had added the offensive label to the Mail's post.
Facebook has now disabled the faulty
