Recently Twitter Inc said it will launch a contest for computer researchers and hackers to identify preferences in its image-cropping algorithm after a group of researchers earlier found the algorithm tended to exclude Black people and men. The competition is part of a wider push across the tech industry to assure artificial intelligence technologies act ethically. The social networking company said in a blog post that the prize competition was aimed at identifying “potential harms of this algorithm beyond what we identified ourselves.”
Following criticism last year about image previews of Black people’s faces, the company said that three of its machine learning researchers found an 8% difference from demographic parity in favor of women and a 4% favor toward white individuals. Twitter issued publicly the computer code that decides how images are cropped in the Twitter feed, and said on Friday, participants are asked to find how the algorithm could cause harm, such as stereotyping or denigrating any group of people.
Let us tell you that the winners will receive cash rewards ranging from $500 to $3,500 and will be invited to present their work at a workshop hosted by Twitter at DEF CON in August, one of the largest hacker conferences held annually in Las Vegas.
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