Twitter to analyse if its algorithms are causing unintentional harms, gender or racial bias
Twitter to analyse if its algorithms are causing unintentional harms, gender or racial bias
Twitter is going to analyse and study its existing algorithms that offer content recommendations and crop images on the platform.
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Twitter has formed a META (ML Ethics, Transparency and Accountability) team of engineers, researchers, and data scientists to study its algorithms.
Twitter noted that the results of this work may not be visible to product changes, but will lead to heightened awareness.
Last year, Twitter was called out for its algorithmic bias when it highlighted lighter skin tones.