2020-10-06T08:58:35+02:00

The Register reports on a controversy surrounding the automatic image-cropping functionality of Twitter:

When previewing pictures on the social media platform, Twitter automatically crops and resizes the image to match your screen size, be a smartphone display, PC monitor, etc. Twitter uses computer-vision software to decide which part of the pic to focus on, and it tends to home in on women’s chests or those with lighter skin. There are times where it will pick someone with darker skin over a lighter-skinned person, though generally, it seems to prefer women’s chests and lighter skin.

It seems Twitter has not come up with a technical fix, but is instead resorting to. Read the full article here.