whytheracecardisplayed
May 7, 20231 min
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A 2019 study by researchers from Georgia Tech found that the algorithm used to detect human figures was more likely to fail to detect people with darker skin.
In this example, healthcare costs were used as a proxy for a patient’s health. In the US, Black patients have historically had challenges in accessing healthcare. As a result, Black patients’ healthcare needs were consistently minimized in comparison to healthier white patients.
In 2020, Twitter users began noticing that large images which portrayed people of different races would crop out darker-skinned people and focus on lighter-skinned people.
Beauty AI was the first beauty contest to be judged by AI (5, 6). In 2016 there were 60,000 applications from over 100 countries, and entrants weren’t allowed to have makeup, glasses or a beard.