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Twitter image cropping

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

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

Digital imagery favours white people in framing and de-emphasises the visibility of non-white people.

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