Google's solution to accidental algorithmic racism: ban gorillas

Google's 'immediate action' over AI labelling of black people as gorillas was simply to block the word, along with chimpanzee and monkey, reports suggest

After Google was criticised in 2015 for an image-recognition algorithm that auto-tagged pictures of black people as "gorillas", the company promised "immediate action" to prevent any repetition of the error.

That action was simply to prevent Google Photos from ever labelling any image as a gorilla, chimpanzee, or monkey - even pictures of the primates themselves.