BiasMedium
Microsoft’s Algorithm Allegedly Selected Photo of the Wrong Mixed-Race Person Featured in a News Story
- Occurred
- Jun 6, 2020
- Published
- May 30, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A news story published on MSN.com featured a photo of the wrong mixed-race person that was allegedly selected by an algorithm, following Microsoft’s layoff and replacement of journalists and editorial workers at its organizations with AI systems.
Developers
- Microsoft
Deployers
- Microsoft
- MSN.com
Harmed parties
- Jade Thirlwall
- Leigh-Anne Pinnock
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Algorithmic error selecting wrong person's photo reflects potential bias in AI selection systems.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8