Discord revealed a bug in its AI moderation system that wrongfully banned over 8,000 users in the last two months. Harmless images like spreadsheets, chessboards, and game textures were mistakenly flagged as harmful. This issue has been ongoing since May and has now been acknowledged by the company.
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The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with an additional 200 users banned over the weekend before its team identified and fixed the problem.
Discord has acknowledged that a bug in its AI moderation system mistakenly banned more than 8,000 users over the past two months, after harmless images—including spreadsheets, chessboards, game textures, as well as white and gray transparent backgrounds—were...