"Although we find no evidence the saliency model explicitly encodes male gaze, in cases where the model crops out a woman’s head in favor of their body due to a jersey or lettering, the chosen crop still runs the risk of representational harm for women. In these instances, it is important to remember that users are unaware of the details of the saliency model and the cropping algorithm. Regardless of the underlying mechanism, when an image cropped to a woman’s body area is viewed on social media, due to the historical hyper-sexualization and objectification of women’s bodies, the image runs this risk of being instilled with the notion of male gaze."
"Point multipliers are applied for those harms that particularly affect marginalized communities since Twitter’s goal is to responsibly and equitably serve the public conversation."
I'm sure Twitter is just responding to the controversy from Fall of 2020 and doing due diligence to address the problem. However, how do you award a bounty for addressing "risk of representational harm" due to historical biases not inherent in the model? Genuine question here and one I'm always curious about. Seems difficult if not impossible.
"Point multipliers are applied for those harms that particularly affect marginalized communities since Twitter’s goal is to responsibly and equitably serve the public conversation."
I'm sure Twitter is just responding to the controversy from Fall of 2020 and doing due diligence to address the problem. However, how do you award a bounty for addressing "risk of representational harm" due to historical biases not inherent in the model? Genuine question here and one I'm always curious about. Seems difficult if not impossible.