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Pantone reveals SkinTone Validated, the world’s first tech validated skin tone resource

Jan 11, 2022 by Alex Baker Add Comment
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The colour giant Pantone has announced the launch of the world’s first validation program for skin tones for technology. It’s called SkinTone Validated, and like its Pantone Validated scheme, allows computer screens, TV, mobile devices and printer manufacturers to have their displays tested to ensure that they authentically reproduce skin tones.

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Racism in Western fashion prompts photographer to quit

Dec 9, 2021 by Alex Baker 9 Comments
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Well-known fashion photographer Jingna Zhang has announced that she has decided to no longer engage in fashion photography, citing an unforgiving uphill battle against racism in the Western Magazine market as one of the reasons for quitting.

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Facebook apologizes after its AI mislabels a video of Black men as “primates”

Sep 6, 2021 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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Facebook recently found itself in the middle of yet another scandal. This time, it’s not about the data leak, but about a racist message users were seeing under a video featuring Black men. Facebook’s AI labeled it as “Primates,” causing a fierce backlash.

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Elle Germany publicly apologizes after insinuating that black models are “a trend”

Nov 7, 2019 by Dunja Djudjic 11 Comments
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Elle Germany has recently come under fire after publishing a “racially insensitive” issue. The November 2019 issue contains a tagline reading “black is back” along with a feature of models of color. Furthermore, there’s a photo of a black woman against the wrong person’s name, so the publication was accused that they “can’t actually tell models apart.”

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Online database ImageNet to remove 600,000 images after art project exposes its racist and gender bias

Sep 25, 2019 by Dunja Djudjic 2 Comments
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ImageNet, one of the largest publicly accessible online databases of photos, is removing 600,000 images from its system. In other words, that’s as many as half of the 1.5 million images in its “person” categories.  The decision came after an art project ImageNetRoulette revealed racist and gender bias that underlines ImageNet’s artificial intelligence.

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“Racist” Government passport system rejects black man’s photo despite meeting all criteria

Sep 19, 2019 by Dunja Djudjic 3 Comments
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Although facial recognition technology uses artificial intelligence, it’s not always very intelligent. The Government’s facial detection system recently rejected a perfectly appropriate passport photo of a young black man because it thought his mouth was open.

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Vogue Italia under fire for giving Gigi Hadid a “blackface”

May 4, 2018 by Dunja Djudjic 1 Comment
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Vogue Italia has recently published a cover featuring Gigi Hadid that caused quite a stir. The model appeared with overly-darkened skin, causing the public to accuse Vogue Italia and photographer Steven Klein of racism. It has gone so far, that even Hadid herself has apologized for the controversial cover, explaining that she had no control over the final result.

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“For decades, our coverage was racist” says National Geographic

Mar 13, 2018 by John Aldred 5 Comments
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Now, more than ever, racism is a touchy subject. National Geographic’s April issue is being devoted entirely to the subject of race. Naturally, this is going to upset a lot of people. No matter what one’s thoughts on the subject, somebody’s going to be upset by those thoughts and opinions. But National Geographic is holding their hand up and taking responsibility for their own actions.

They challenged John Edwin Mason, a professor of African history and the history of photography at the University of Virginia to investigate the history of their own coverage of “people of color” in the USA and around the world. Now, National Geographic editor in chief, Susan Goldberg, admits “our coverage was racist“, and that needs to be acknowledged before they can move forward.

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Why your Instagram photos of food may be “racist”

Feb 27, 2017 by Dunja Djudjic 32 Comments
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Have you ever thought food photos can be racist? Neither have I. But Portland-based food photographer Celeste Noche declares Instagram food photography to be exactly this – “racist”. In the podcast on The Racist Sandwich, she addresses the issues of racism, as well as gender and class division in Instagram food photography. As a Filipino, she feels that Asian cuisine is represented in a racist way. I always thought food shots are just food shots, but Celeste gives quite an interesting point of view analyzing these photos.

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African Americans Tagged As “Gorillas” By Google Photos App

Jul 3, 2015 by Allen Mowery 16 Comments
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Google apparently is not the most politically-correct mind on the planet.  As a recent incident with the Google Photos app illustrates, the artificial intelligence engine is still learning…and making giant mistakes along the way.

Computer programmer and hobbyist photographer Jacky Alciné recently tweeted, “Google Photos, y’all f@#ked up. My friend’s not a gorilla,” along with a screen shot.  Jacky had uploaded a photo of himself and a friend to Google Photos, and the automatic tagging feature got it completely wrong.

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