Besides Making You Old, FaceApp Makes Black People Look White by Estadão

For this story, we colleced a portrait picture of famous black people and repeatedly applied the aging filter available in FaceApp, a popular smartphone app that changes the look of users’ photos. We found out that it made black people look whiter each time the filter was applied. This effect is probably a consequence of a biased database that may have been used to train the machine learning system that powers the software.

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