{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blog-post-js","path":"/blog/twitter-finds-its-ai-tends-to-crop-out-black-people-men-from-photos/","result":{"data":{"site":{"siteMetadata":{"title":"No Frills News"}},"contentfulNfnPost":{"postTitle":"Twitter finds its AI tends to crop out Black people, men from photos","slug":"twitter-finds-its-ai-tends-to-crop-out-black-people-men-from-photos","createdLocal":"2021-05-20 14:31:04.340196","publishDate":"2021-05-19 00:00:00","feedName":"Image Recognition","sourceUrl":{"sourceUrl":"https://kfgo.com/2021/05/19/twitter-finds-its-ai-tends-to-crop-out-black-people-men-from-photos/"},"postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"<p>It found an 8% difference from demographic parity in favor of women, and a 4% favor toward white individuals.\nThe paper cited several possible reasons, including issues with image backgrounds and eye color, but said none were an excuse.\nTo counter the problem, Twitter recently started showing standard aspect ratio photos in full – without any crop – on its mobile apps and is trying to expand that effort.\nThe findings are another example of the disparate impact from artificial intelligence systems including demographic biases identified in facial recognition and text analysis, the paper said.\nAmazon Inc in 2018 scrapped an AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women.</p>"}}}},"pageContext":{"slug":"twitter-finds-its-ai-tends-to-crop-out-black-people-men-from-photos"}}}