FILE - In this March 29, 2018, record photo, the logo for Facebook appears connected screens astatine the Nasdaq MarketSite successful New York's Times Square. Facebook has apologized for putting a primates" statement connected a video of Black men, successful June 2021, according to a study successful the New York Times. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

FILE - In this March 29, 2018, record photo, the logo for Facebook appears connected screens astatine the Nasdaq MarketSite successful New York's Times Square. Facebook has apologized for putting a primates" statement connected a video of Black men, successful June 2021, according to a study successful the New York Times. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) (Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

NEW YORK – Facebook has apologized for putting a “primates" statement connected a video of Black men, according to a report successful the New York Times.

The paper said the video was posted by a tabloid successful June and showed Black men successful altercations with achromatic civilians and constabulary officers. After the video ended, an automatic connection popped up that said “keep seeing videos astir Primates,” according to the Times.

Facebook turned disconnected the artificial quality diagnostic that showed the message, the Times said, and apologized for what it called “an unacceptable error” and told the paper that it would analyse further truthful that it doesn't hap again.

Facebook connected Saturday did not respond to a petition for remark from The Associated Press. But a institution spokeswoman told the Times that adjacent though Facebook has made improvements to its artificial intelligence, “it’s not perfect" and has “more advancement to make."

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Artificial quality has mislabeled radical of colour before. In 2015, Google apologized aft it labeled a photograph of 2 Black radical arsenic gorillas.

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