Twitter investigating racial bias after users noticed the platform sometimes prefers White faces

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Twitter says it's investigating why its picture-cropping algorithm sometimes prefers White faces to Black ones after users alerted the company to the issue.

Twitter has said it is investigating why its picture-cropping algorithm sometimes prefers White faces to Black ones.

LONDON – Twitter says it's investigating why its picture-cropping algorithm sometimes prefers White faces to Black ones. Parag Agrawal, Twitter's chief technology officer, said Twitter analyzed the model when it shipped it, but said that it needs continuous improvement.The issue came to light after Colin Madland, a university manager in Vancouver, noticed that his Black colleague's head kept disappearing when using the video conferencing app Zoom. It appeared as though Zoom's software thought the Black man's head was part of the background and removed it as a result.

Another suggested that a stock photo of a White man in a suit was preferred to one in which the man was Black.

 

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Seriously, this has gotta be satire ! 😆

Twitter is so woke, it’s about to cancel itself.

SMH

BTW: NBA is bias on black faces 😉.

1) hahaha 2) you capitalized White so you must now be cancelled haha

WokeWoofDog

Come on TheBabylonBee they are teeing it up for you here.

🤦‍♂️

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