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AI Beauty Judge Did Not Like Dark Skin
In 2016, after artificial inntelligence software Beauty.AI judged an international beauty contest and declared a majority of winners to be white, researchers found that Beauty.AI was racially biased in determining beauty.
- Date it happened
- 2016-09-05
- Organisation involved
- Youth Laboratories
- Product, system or model
- AI system to select winners of a beauty contest. The Beauty.AI system used five different judges to determine beauty. RYNKL, PIMPL, MADIS, Symmetry Master, and AntiAgeist judged based on wrinkles, pim
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