A programmer who carried out a 'horrible experiment' believes Twitter's automated tool favours the faces of white people.
Twitter's cropping tool decided to show a picture of Mitch McConnell instead of Barack Obama: Pic: @basculeTwitter has launched an investigation after users claimed that its image cropping feature favours the faces of white people.
An automatic tool on the social network's mobile app automatically crops pictures that are too big to fit on the screen - and selects which parts of an image should be cut off.Twitter has vowed to investigate To see what Twitter's algorithm would pick, Tony Arcieri posted a long image featuring headshots of Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell at the top and former US president Barack Obama at the bottom - separated by white space.AdvertisementFollowing the"horrible experiment" - which came after an image he posted cropped out a black colleague - Mr Arcieri wrote:"Twitter is just one example of racism manifesting in machine learning algorithms.
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