" Twitter competition finds that algorithm bias prefers white, slim, young faces " "... A graduate student at Switzerland’s EFPL university has discovered a bias in Twitter’s image-cropping ‘saliency’ algorithm. Bogdan Kulynyc proved that the algorithm preferred faces that are light-skinned, slim and young. Twitter’s saliency algorithm decides the most interesting part of an image to crop for preview. ..." "... This comes after and incident last year, where the tech giant found that the preview crop was more likely to hide Black faces. ..."
