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Twitter’s Image Cropping Tool Allegedly Showed Gender and Racial Bias

Occurred
Sep 18, 2020
Published
May 19, 2021
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

Twitter's photo cropping algorithm was revealed by researchers to favor white and women faces in photos containing multiple faces, prompting the company to stop its use on mobile platform.

Developers

  • Twitter

Deployers

  • Twitter

Harmed parties

  • Twitter non-white users
  • Twitter non-male users
  • X (Twitter) users

Classification

Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%

Rationale: Algorithmic bias in image cropping favoring specific demographics constitutes a discrimination incident.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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