"It's the red tie! Clearly the algorithm has a preference for red ties!" Well let's see...pic.twitter.com/l7qySd5sRW
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Trying a horrible experiment... Which will the Twitter algorithm pick: Mitch McConnell or Barack Obama?pic.twitter.com/bR1GRyCkia
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Twitter is just one example of racism manifesting in machine learning algorithms. Other examples: Millions of Black people affected by racist healthcare algorithms: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03228-6 … Racist predictive policing algorithms: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/17/1005396/predictive-policing-algorithms-racist-dismantled-machine-learning-bias-criminal-justice/ …
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Several replies have tried all sorts of meticulous tweaking to get different results. This misses the original point of my experiment: I just tried to find two relatively similar looking images and (earnestly) see what the results were.
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Several people have attributed the issue to contrast, dramatically raising the contrast on Obama and decreasing it until McConnell is a dull grey. While this may get the algorithm to select the other image, it doesn't address the core problem.https://twitter.com/TheArtGun/status/1307508831363104768 …
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These images in particular, comparing low contrast to high contrast Obama, are much more telling. The algorithm seems to prefer a lighter Obama over a darker one:https://twitter.com/m8rbnsn/status/1307801582411689984 …
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If you're interested in this topic in general please follow:
@AnimaAnandkumar director AI research at nVidia / pointed out this issue in 2019: https://twitter.com/AnimaAnandkumar/status/1307465594304974848 …@ruha9 author: Race After Technology@jovialjoy founder: Algorithmic Justice LeagueShow this thread
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holy cow.... tell me this is a metadata trick or something...
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Not deliberate at all. Just what the algorithm picked...
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