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DATDAT-001 — Data Quality and Completeness Issues

Language model generates hate speech and toxic content at scale

4/5Sector: TechnologyGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —

Executive Summary

Language models reproduce and amplify toxic content including hate speech, threats, and incitement to violence, as demonstrated when Microsoft's Tay chatbot required emergency shutdown after generating Holocaust denial. Boards face reputational, regulatory, and legal exposure if deployed models produce harmful outputs without robust content governance controls.

Domain

Data Management

Blindspots in data quality, privacy, bias, lineage, lifecycle, and third-party data dependencies.

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — Ethical and social risks of harm from language models (Weidinger2021) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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