Research renews concerns about gender bias in image recognition services offered by Google, Microsoft, and Amazon
A new paper renews concerns about bias in image recognition services offered by Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. — MEN OFTEN JUDGE women by their appearance. Turns out, computers do too. Tweets: @womenreadwomen , @jessicamalonso , @schemaly , and @amydiehl Tweets: @womenreadwomen : The AI services tended to characterize women by their appearance. Women lawmakers were often tagged with “girl” and “beauty.” They also had a tendency not to see women at all, failing to detect them more often than they failed to see men. #SexNotGender https://www.wired.com/... Jessica Alonso / @jessicamalonso : AI merely cements and scales up existing biases unless someone with a strong PoV that runs counter to the status quo intervenes. It has never been more important to discern whether the tech we use can deliver a future that aligns with our moral values. https://www.wired.com/... @schemaly : When researchers fed pictures of congressmembers to Google's image recognition service it tagged women's pictures with references to physical attributes 3x more than men's. Top tags for men: “official” and “businessperson”; for women: “smile” and “chin.” https://www.wired.com/... Amy Diehl, Ph.D. / @amydiehl : Google's #Ai image recognition applied 3x as many appearance annotations to photos of women congress members as it did to men. Top labels for men: “official”, “businessperson”; women: “smile”, “chin.” Suggests women are to look pretty and men are leaders. https://www.wired.com/...