Sharing Learnings From the First Algorithmic Bias Bounty Challenge

 Originally posted on Twitter Engineering, Sept 21, 2021. In October 2020, people on Twitter raised concerns that the saliency model we used to crop images didn’t serve all people equitably. Shortly thereafter, we published our algorithmic bias assessment which confirmed the model was not treating all people fairly. We committed to decrease our reliance on ML-based image cropping since