The bias seems to be pervasive as various clever experiments have shown:
trying something here pic.twitter.com/2e574z5aA8— Garrett Gilchrist (@GarrGilchrist) September 21, 2020
— sina rawayama (@sina_rawayama) September 20, 2020
— Jordan Simonovski (@_jsimonovski) September 20, 2020
I tried it with dogs. Let's see. pic.twitter.com/xktmrNPtid— - M A R K - (@MarkEMarkAU) September 20, 2020
thanks to everyone who raised this. we tested for bias before shipping the model and didn't find evidence of racial or gender bias in our testing, but it’s clear that we’ve got more analysis to do. we'll open source our work so others can review and replicate. https://t.co/E6sZV3xboH— liz kelley (@lizkelley) September 20, 2020
I know you think it’s fun to dunk on me, but I’m as irritated about this as everyone else. However, I’m in a position to fix it and I will.— Dantley π₯✊πΎπ (@dantley) September 19, 2020
Being racist isn't the only problem:
If twitter didn't see a reason to fix this, this will change their mind https://t.co/FCbi2xVY7Y— Ryan Mac π (@RMac18) September 21, 2020
I had tweeted in 2019 about @Twitter cropping #womeninAI headless while cropping men correcting. When I raised this, many men in field accused me of making up a non-existent issue just to gain attention. Sadly #AI #bias is not yet fixed. https://t.co/Evx9pjhelF— Prof. Anima Anandkumar (@AnimaAnandkumar) September 19, 2020
Women and POC are rendered invisible on @Twitter and other platforms by biased #AI #WomenInSTEM #womenintech #WomensRights pic.twitter.com/KcaNBrYYSa— Prof. Anima Anandkumar (@AnimaAnandkumar) September 20, 2020
possibly we should stop saying “the algorithm” and start saying “the way people programmed the app”— Clarissa C. S. Ryan (@wintersweet) September 20, 2020
Finally:
we have seen the underlying racism of twitter's automatic photo cropping, but in an effort to uncover other biases in the algorithm, i will now spend my very valuable time on this earth testing which of the portraits from this avengers: infinity war promo image the AI likes best pic.twitter.com/VKbAqj2KI7— davemakes πΆπΆ✨ (@davemakes) September 20, 2020