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AI results in preference for white skinAn online beauty contest that simply required candidates to submit a portrait photo to be processed by machine-learning algorithms,resulted in a choice of 44 winners out of 600000 entrants from all over the world, stirring controversy as only one has dark skin. Beauty.
AI researchers have responded by suggesting the bias is caused by a lack of minorities represented in the training data. “When you’re training an algorithm to recognize certain patterns … you might not have enough data, or the data might be biased.”… “and for some population groups the data sets are missing an adequate number of samples to be able to train the deep neural networks.The problems of Beauty.
AI could be argued to stem from the outset,as the promo video for the contest demonstrates, from the start there is a lack of criticality and an attempt to mathematically degree and quantify some very questionable ideals of beauty. The video narrates:[the algorithms] will evaluate the main features including symmetry, and skin color,wrinkles, and many other parameters affecting our perception of your beauty, and rank you within your age group,race and gender. Be the first human to win the beauty contest judged by robots.
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