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Twitter’s Photo-Cropping Algorithm Favors Young, Thin Females



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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 for misbehavior has found that the same algorithm, which identifies the most important areas of an image, also discriminates by age and weight, and favors text in English and other Western languages.The top entry, contributed by Bogdan Kulynych, a graduate student in computer security at EPFL in Switzerland, shows how Twitter’s image-cropping algorithm favors thinner and younger-looking people. Kulynych used a deepfake technique to auto-generate different faces, …

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