It's not clear to me why this matters for a research paper. And the algorithm isn't racist - perhaps the training set is. If I want to work on a project like t

It's not clear to me why this matters for a research paper. And the algorithm isn't racist - perhaps the training set is. If I want to work on a project like this, and the only appropriate training dataset I have is photographs white males, am I not allowed to work on generating faces until I've fleshed out the data set? It's not like they are offering some service to the general public where they can de-pixelate faces. It's a research paper. A final note: The only professor with her name on the paper(Cynthia Rudin) is very active in researching the intersection of machine learning and social justice. I'm not so sure she would put her name on a paper that can be flippantly described in 3 sentence comments on internet forums as having "some issues" wrt race.