BiasMedium
Google Images Showed Racially Biased Results for 'Professional' Hairstyles
- Occurred
- Apr 5, 2016
- Published
- Apr 8, 2016
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Google Images reportedly showed disparate search results along racial lines, featuring almost exclusively white women for "professional hairstyles" and Black women for "unprofessional hairstyles" prompts.
Developers
Deployers
Harmed parties
- Google users
- Black women
- Black people
- Women of color
- Women and girls
- Women
- Google Images users
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Incident involves racially biased search results causing disparate impact based on demographic.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8