Incident 103: Twitter’s Image Cropping Tool Allegedly Showed Gender and Racial Bias
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Taxonomy DetailsKnown AI Goal
Image Cropping
Known AI Technology
Neural Network
Known AI Technical Failure
Generalization Failure
Potential AI Technical Failure
Distributional Bias, Incomplete Data Attribute Capture
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Twitter‘s algorithm for automatically cropping images attached to tweets often doesn’t focus on the important content in them. A bother, for sure, but it seems like a minor one on the surface. However, over the weekend, researchers found th…
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A study of 10,000 images found bias in what the system chooses to highlight. Twitter has stopped using it on mobile, and will consider ditching it on the web.
LAST FALL, CANADIAN student Colin Madland noticed that Twitter’s automatic croppi…
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In October 2020, we heard feedback from people on Twitter that our image cropping algorithm didn’t serve all people equitably. As part of our commitment to address this issue, we also shared that we'd analyze our model again for bias. Over …
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Twitter has laid out plans for a bug bounty competition with a difference. This time around, instead of paying researchers who uncover security issues, Twitter will reward those who find as-yet undiscovered examples of bias in its image-cro…
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Twitter's first bounty program for AI bias has wrapped up, and there are already some glaring issues the company wants to address. CNET reports that grad student Bogdan Kulynych has discovered that photo beauty filters skew the Twitter sali…
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