Maybe training bias. Maybe confirmation bias. The truth is, we don’t know. A couple of minor changes in the background and you get a counterexample. Thinking

Maybe training bias. Maybe confirmation bias. The truth is, we don’t know. A couple of minor changes in the background and you get a counterexample. Thinking about a traditional face detection method (e.g. Viola-Jones), facial features are isolated based on shape and contrast. I don’t think it’s controversial to say white faces provide better contrast. Maybe a perfectly equitable training set could help, but I doubt it would. Maybe they use a different method altogether. The traction of the original tweet speaks volumes on how far identity politics has gone in tech and how easily people get swayed into inflammatory generalizations based on superficial, anecdotal and easily-manufactured evidence.