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PITTSBURGH The Queen s Gambit, the recent TV mini-series about a chess master, may have stirred increased interest in chess, but a word to the wise: social media talk about game-piece colors could lead to misunderstandings, at least for hate-speech detection software.
That s what a pair of Carnegie Mellon University researchers suspect happened to Antonio Radi?, or agadmator, a Croatian chess player who hosts a popular YouTube channel. Last June, his account was blocked for harmful and dangerous content.
YouTube never provided an explanation and reinstated the channel within 24 hours, said Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh a project scientist in CMU s Language Technologies Institute (LTI). It s nevertheless possible that black vs. white talk during Radi? s interview with Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura triggered software that automatically detects racist language, he suggested.