Twitter crops out black people
 

AI is racist

Twitter’s image-cropping algorithm appears to have a problem with race and tends to delete black people from the frame.

It is not just racist, it does not like men generally and tends to crop them out too.

Twitter said that the decision about cropping an image is a decision best made by people.

The study by three of its machine learning researchers was conducted after user criticism last year about image previews in posts excluding black people's faces.

It found an eight percent difference from demographic parity in favour of women and a four percent favour toward white individuals.

The paper cited several reasons, including issues with image backgrounds and eye colour, but said none were an excuse.

"Machine learning-based cropping is fundamentally flawed because it removes user agency and restricts user's expression of their own identity and values, instead of imposing a normative gaze about which part of the image is considered the most interesting", the researchers wrote.

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