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Images of Black People Labeled as Gorillas
2015-06-03
Google Photos image processing software mistakenly labelled a black couple as "gorillas."
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Google Image Showed Racially Biased Results for “Professional” Hairstyles
2016-04-05
Google Image search reportedly showed disparate results along racial lines, featuring almost exclusively white women for “professional hairstyles” and black women for “unprofessional hairstyles” prompts.
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Personal voice assistants struggle with black voices, new study shows
2020-03-23
A study found that voice recognition tools from Apple, Amazon, Google, IBM, and Microsoft disproportionately made errors when transcribing black speakers.
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Emotion Detection Models Showed Disparate Performance along Racial Lines
2018-11-09
Emotion detection tools by Face++ and Microsoft's Face API allegedly scored smiling or defaulted ambiguous facial photos for Black faces as negative emotion more often than for white faces.
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