“Despite being a prominent figure, Harris hasn’t been as widely photographed as Trump. Wired’s search of photo supplier Getty Images bears this out; it returned 63,295 images of Harris compared to 561,778 of Trump. Given her relatively recent entry into the presidential race, Harris is ‘a new celebrity,’ as far as AI image makers are concerned, according to Cuenca Abela…That Harris is a Black woman, of Jamaican and Indian descent, also may be a factor.
Irene Solaiman, head of global policy at AI company Hugging Face, says that ‘poorer facial recognition for darker skin tones and femme features’ may affect the sorting of images of Harris for automated labeling.”
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