Ethics, safety and limitations

Crisis data can expose vulnerable people. Public availability does not remove ethical obligations.

Prohibited claims

Do not describe this repository as a verified emergency-response product, a truth detector or an autonomous dispatcher.

Known limitations

• Binary labels compress complex humanitarian situations.
• Social streams are not representative samples of affected populations.
• Language and connectivity inequalities create systematic blind spots.
• Adversarial posts, rumors and recycled images can manipulate predictions.
• Confidence scores are model estimates, not guarantees.
• Archived benchmarks may not represent current platform behavior.

Human oversight

High-impact outputs require trained reviewers, corroborating evidence and accountable operational procedures. The review label is a first-class system outcome, not a failure mode.