BiasMedium
Emotion Detection Models Showed Disparate Performance along Racial Lines
- Occurred
- Nov 9, 2018
- Published
- Dec 6, 2018
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Emotion detection tools by Face++ and Microsoft's Face API allegedly scored smiling or defaulted ambiguous facial photos for Black faces as negative emotion more often than for white faces.
Developers
- Megvii
- Microsoft
Deployers
- Megvii
- Microsoft
Harmed parties
- Black people
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: The incident describes disparate performance of emotion detection models across racial lines, indicating algorithmic bias.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8