https://shamur.ai/blog/tags/pesos/Recent content in Pesos on ayman's blog:Hugoen-us© [David A. Shamma](https://shamur.ai)Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:50:10 -0700https://shamur.ai/blog/posts/behind-twitters-biased-ai-cropping-and-how-to-fix-it/Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:50:10 -0700https://shamur.ai/blog/posts/behind-twitters-biased-ai-cropping-and-how-to-fix-it/<small><strong><em>Note:</em></strong> this was <a href="https://medium.com/swlh/behind-twitters-biased-ai-cropping-and-how-to-fix-it-c0bff96c8d3e?sharedUserId=ayman" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">first published 2020-28-09</a> on Medium; reposting here via <a href="https://indieweb.org/PESOS" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">PESOS</a>.</small> <hr> <p>Twitter’s AI crop has a bias. When given a large photo that contained the press photos of Mitch McConnell and Barack Obama, the AI picks Mitch. Swap the position of the two pictures, and the AI picks the white guy again. This behavior has led to a lot of <a href="https://twitter.com/therourke/status/1307711835836219394" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">random</a> experimentation online. Still, it’s important to cover what we know, what Twitter’s response was, what caused the problem, and how to fix it.</p>