Last year, Twitter users noticed something strange. When they uploaded photos to the platform, it automatically focused on white faces. After shutting off the tool, Twitter staged a contest in which ...

In May, Twitter said that it would stop using an artificial intelligence algorithm found to favor white and female faces when auto-cropping images. Now, an unusual contest to scrutinize an AI program ...

Twitter has confirmed that its photo-cropping algorithm is, essentially, racist. Specifically, the winning entry in a competition to test its algorithm found that it favors faces that are “slim, young ...

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Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. In a presentation of these results at DEF CON 29, Rumman Chowdhury, director of Twitter’s META team (which ...