BiasMedium
AI Beauty Judge Did Not Like Dark Skin
- Occurred
- Sep 5, 2016
- Published
- Apr 10, 2017
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
In 2016, after artificial inntelligence software Beauty.AI judged an international beauty contest and declared a majority of winners to be white, researchers found that Beauty.AI was racially biased in determining beauty.
Developers
- Youth Laboratories
Deployers
- Youth Laboratories
Harmed parties
- People with Dark Skin
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI system exhibited racial bias in beauty contest judging, causing controversy and research findings.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8