Twitter launches competition to find biases in its image-cropping algorithm

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Twitter launches competition to find biases in its image-cropping algorithm
Twitter will launch a competition for computer researchers and hackers to identify biases in its image-cropping algorithm, after a group of researchers previously found the algorithm tended to exclude Black people and men. The competition is part of a wider effort across the tech industry to ...

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