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Twitter’s Photo Crop Algorithm Leads White Faces and Women Last fall, Canadian Student Colin Madland noticed this Twitterthe automatic cutting algorithm constantly selected her face — not a dark-skinned colleague — to display in tweets from the couple’s photos. The the section sparked accusations according to the bias, they posted long photos as a wave of Twitter users to see if the AI ​​would choose the face of a white person in front of a black person or put women’s boxes on the...

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Last fall, Canadian student Colin Madland noticed that Twitter’s automatic cropping algorithm continually selected his face—not his darker-skinned colleague’s—from photos of the pair to display in tweets. The episode ignited accusations of bias as a flurry of Twitter users published elongated photos to see whether the AI would choose the face of a white person over a Black person or if it focused on women’s chests ove...