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Algorithms · September 2020

Twitter's Autocrop Preferred Anime Cleavage Over Black Faces

Users discovered Twitter's image-cropping algorithm reliably centered on light-skinned faces and, infamously, anime cleavage over Black faces. Twitter eventually scrapped the auto-crop entirely.

Source: Vice

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