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Twitter’s Image Cropping Tool Allegedly Showed Gender and Racial Bias

AI Incident Database · article · Sep 21, 2020 · UTC

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.

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incident-report
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reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2020-09-18T00:00:00.000Z

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AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

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