An AI tool which reconstructed a pixelated picture of Barack Obama to look like a white man perfectly illustrates racial bias in algorithms
A tool called Face Depixelizer grabbed the attention of the artificial intelligence research community this weekend.When given a pixelated photograph of Barack Obama, Face Depixelizer turned him into a white man.
The tool, called Face Depixelizer, was built by a coder and put out on Twitter. It's built to take pixelated photographs of people and accurately reconstruct a sharp and accurate image of their face using machine learning, a type of AI.Users started to spot however that the system was not particularly accurate when it came to processing Black faces. One shared an image of what happened after they input a pixelated picture of Barack Obama — Face Depixelizer turned him into a white man.
Although Face Depixelizer is an illustration of how these systems can fail at identifying Black people's faces, the implications of algorithmic racial bias go far beyond a depixelating proof-of-concept tool circulating on Twitter.
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