AVID-2023-V017

Description

Google’s YouTube Kids App Presents Inappropriate Content

Details

YouTube’s content filtering and recommendation algorithms exposed children to disturbing and inappropriate videos.

Reports

References

• Incident 1: Google’s YouTube Kids App Presents Inappropriate Content

AVID Taxonomy Categorization

• Risk domains: Performance
• SEP subcategories: P0401: Psychological Safety
• Lifecycle stages: L06: Deployment

Affected or Relevant Artifacts

• Developer: YouTube
• Deployer: YouTube
• Artifact Details:

  Type	Name
  System

Other information

• Vulnerability Class: AIID Incident
• Credits: Sean McGregor, AIID
• Date Published: 2023-03-30
• Date Last Modified: 2023-03-30
• Version: 0.2
• AVID Entry