And that's why we've let humans take back control Katyanna Quach Wed 19 May 2021 // 23:26 UTC Share Copy Twitter said its AI-powered image-cropping algorithm is slightly biased in favor of White people and women after all, and has taken steps to ditch its reliance on the machine-learning code. The algorithm was used to automatically decide which portion of a photo shared on the social network was best for the screen viewing it. You can upload pictures in all sorts of sizes and aspect ratios; at some point the images have to be displayed, and Twitter used a trained system to decide which parts of the media to show. The option to view the whole image was available – the algorithm was used to create a preview of the media.