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Twitter’s Image Cropping Tool Allegedly Showed Gender and Racial Bias
Twitter's photo cropping algorithm was revealed by researchers to favor white and women faces in photos containing multiple faces, prompting the company to stop its use on mobile platform.
- Date it happened
- 2020-09-18
- Organisation involved
- Product, system or model
- Cropping Neutral Network. Given an image, it crops the image to create a preview.
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