Twitter launches bug bounty contest to detect algorithmic bias

Twitter has planned for a contest to win different bug rewards. This time, instead of paying researchers who discover security issues, Twitter will reward those who find undiscovered examples of bias in its algorithms. Image cropping algorithm

Back in April, Twitter said it would study The xo potential "unintended danger" created by the algorithm starts with cropping the image. The algorithm started in 2018 to try to highlight the most interesting parts of the image in the preview.

Some users have criticized how Twitter handles automatic cropping. It claims that the algorithm tends to focus on white people in photos.In May We share our approach to identifying

bias in our predominance algorithm. (also known as our image cropping algorithm) and we make our code available to others to replicate our work," Twitter wrote in a blog post.

We want to take this work one step further by inviting and incentivizing communities to help identify the potential dangers of this algorithm beyond our self-identification.
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