Twitter consistently centers image previews on whiter faces

Re:Twitter consistently centers image previews on whiter faces by slg on Saturday September 19, 2020 @07:55PM (#24531063)

Perfect example of how not proactively making an algorithm anti-racist can yield results that end up being racist. If you train a machine learning algorithm on photos with predominantly white faces, your algorithm is going to think people with lighter skin are more important thank people with darker skin.

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Re:Twitter consistently centers image previews on whiter faces by xyzzy_plugh on Saturday September 19, 2020 @07:59PM (#24531075)

Why are people downvoting this? The parent is correct. If you don't test your models adequately then they'll have holes like this one.

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Re:Twitter consistently centers image previews on whiter faces by slg on Saturday September 19, 2020 @08:02PM (#24531083)

HN doesn't like talking about race or numerous other "controversial" topics. This story is already flagged off the front page.

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Re:Twitter consistently centers image previews on whiter faces by rvz on Saturday September 19, 2020 @08:12PM (#24531112)

> HN doesn't like talking about race or numerous other "controversial" topics.

There was plenty of discussions on HN when GitHub was renaming master/slave terminology [0] and when other open source projects were doing the same. Essentially they break the HN guidelines when they 'like' if it is a company / person they 'like'.

On the other hand, when a topic attacks their 'narrative' or attacks their side of the argument from someone they don't like, they downvote, flag and censor and make sure it is never seen. Even if it is factual and has evidence.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23518123

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Re:Twitter consistently centers image previews on whiter faces by loopz on Sunday September 20, 2020 @04:03AM (#24532618)

I find this on hacker news by time site. These discussions become inflated by politics, so are moderated.

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Re:Twitter consistently centers image previews on whiter faces by aaron695 on Sunday September 20, 2020 @09:26AM (#24533891)

Because we are not children. We understand the idea training data can affect the results.

OP has no evidence for the incendiary accusation and Twitter denies it.

https://twitter.com/ZehanWang/status/1307461285811032066?s=2...

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Re:Twitter consistently centers image previews on whiter faces by corrys on Saturday September 19, 2020 @09:25PM (#24531357)

This assessment sounds correct. The silver lining here is that engineers will pay more attention to algorithm biases in the future.

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