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Another reminder that bias, testing, diversity is needed in machine learning: Twitter’s image-crop AI may favor white men, women’s chests

Strange, it didn’t show up during development, says social network

Twitter says its AI that automatically crops images in tweets didn’t exhibit racial or gender bias when it was developed – even though in production it may prefer to crop out dark-skinned people and focus on women’s chests. The social network acknowledged it has more work to do to address concerns.…