Twitter announced the « industry’s first » algorithmic bias bounty competition as part of DEF CON AI Village.
Twitter introduced a new bounty program that will reward DEF CON AI Village participants who discover and disclose signs of bias in the company’s image cropping algorithm before August 6. The algorithm in question is used to determine which part of an image should be shown in Twitter’s mobile apps, and the company said in May that it had received complaints that the algorithm « didn’t serve all people equitably » because of « gender and race-based biases. » Twitter’s analysis backed up those complaints: It said « an experiment of randomly linked images of individuals of different races and genders » that was conducted on 10,000 images showed that its image cropping algorithm was indeed biased in favor of women and white individuals.
