{"id":8905,"date":"2023-02-08T11:37:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T10:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/08\/there-is-no-standard-investigation-finds-ai-algorithms-objectify-womens-bodies\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T11:37:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T10:37:39","slug":"there-is-no-standard-investigation-finds-ai-algorithms-objectify-womens-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/08\/there-is-no-standard-investigation-finds-ai-algorithms-objectify-womens-bodies\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There is no standard\u2019: investigation finds AI algorithms objectify women\u2019s bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian exclusive: AI tools rate photos of women as more sexually suggestive than those of men, especially if nipples, pregnant bellies or exercise is involved<\/p>\n<p>Images posted on social media are analyzed by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that decide what to amplify and what to suppress. Many of these algorithms, a Guardian investigation has found, have a gender bias, and may have been censoring and suppressing the reach of countless photos featuring women\u2019s bodies.<\/p>\n<p>These AI tools, developed by large technology companies, including Google and Microsoft, are meant to protect users by identifying violent or pornographic visuals so that social media companies can block it before anyone sees it. The companies claim that their AI tools can also detect \u201craciness\u201d or how sexually suggestive an image is. With this classification, platforms \u2013 including Instagram and LinkedIn \u2013 may suppress contentious imagery.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/feb\/08\/biased-ai-algorithms-racy-women-bodies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fdd8861c44e9d34f16369190669f014fe4c60165\/0_0_1500_900\/master\/1500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9f3766247740b094a044d59776105493\" title=\"\u2018There is no standard\u2019: investigation finds AI algorithms objectify women\u2019s bodies\" \/>Guardian exclusive: AI tools rate photos of women as more sexually suggestive than those of men, especially if nipples, pregnant bellies or exercise is involved<br \/>\nImages posted on social media are analyzed by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that decide what to amplify and what to suppress. Many of these algorithms, a Guardian investigation has found, have a gender bias, and may have been censoring and suppressing the reach of countless photos featuring women\u2019s bodies.<br \/>\nThese AI tools, developed by large technology companies, including Google and Microsoft, are meant to protect users by identifying violent or pornographic visuals so that social media companies can block it before anyone sees it. The companies claim that their AI tools can also detect \u201craciness\u201d or how sexually suggestive an image is. With this classification, platforms \u2013 including Instagram and LinkedIn \u2013 may suppress contentious imagery. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian exclusive: AI tools rate photos of women as more sexually suggestive than those of men, especially if nipples, pregnant bellies or exercise is involved Images posted on social media are analyzed by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that decide what to amplify and what to suppress. Many of these algorithms, a Guardian investigation has found, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/08\/there-is-no-standard-investigation-finds-ai-algorithms-objectify-womens-bodies\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018There is no standard\u2019: investigation finds AI algorithms objectify women\u2019s bodies<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}