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Twitter is making changes to its photo software after people online found it was automatically cropping out Black faces and focusing on white ones – Business Insider Australia
Twitter is making changes to its photo cropping function after an investigation into racial bias in the software, the company said on Thursday.
- Twitter said it is limiting its reliance on machine learning that helps it decide which part of a photo to crop on its platform.
- Online users have reported racial bias on the social media firm’s image cropping tool, which automatically focuses on the part of a photo it thinks the viewer will find most interesting.
- One Twitter user recently highlighted how the face of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is white, was routinely centered in automatic image …
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