Twitter has launched a campaign to detect artificial intelligence bias in its content. On Friday, the short-message app maker detailed a new bounty competition that offers prizes of up to $3,500 for showing Twitter how its technology incorrectly handles photos.
Earlier this year, Twitter confirmed a problem in its automatic photo cropping mechanism, concluding the software favored white people over Black people. The cropping mechanism is supposed to present the most important section of an image, according to the German News Agency.
Twitter has offered prizes to outside experts and observers to study its code and results to detect bogus, and help uncover algorithmic bias and address it.
According to the CNET website, tech companies have been used to offering prizes and inviting experts to detect security cavities in their products, but it is an industry first that a company resorts to this approach to uncover the bias of its algorithms.
