Mastodawn

EllisMonk Dec 5, 2022

Glad to see work on skin tone, #colorism , and pulse oximetry highlighted here. The consequences of not reckoning correctly with skin tone in technology are profound.

https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/05/unbiased-pulse-oximeters-researchers-need-better-way-to-measure-skin-tone/?s=09

Before making unbiased pulse oximeters, researchers need a better way to measure skin tone

Much of the research to understand pulse oximeters’ shortcomings and devise solutions is focused on race. But the problem is not one of race — it’s very clearly one of skin tone.

STAT

EllisMonk Nov 23, 2022

Shared some thoughts on skin tone, #colorism, and AI for this article in Fortune Magazine. Also discussed my work with Google and the Monk Skin Tone Scale.

https://fortune.com/2022/11/22/tech-forward-everyday-ai-beauty-bias/

Beauty in the eye of the A.I.: How inherent racial bias has shaped A.I. and what brands are doing to address it

Because A.I. has been, historically, trained on non-diverse imagery and data, its ability to recognize darker skin tones is, at best, unreliable, and at worse, non-existent.

Fortune

EllisMonk Nov 21, 2022

Matthew Clair Nov 21, 2022

Just published a paper in LSR on #collateralconsequences, #juries, and the #carceralstate. Interviews with 103 court officials reveal that being perceived as an offender or victim of crime (or proximate to one) is a common basis for jury exclusion. We argue that such exclusion is a collateral consequence of mass criminalization, with racialized and gendered effects that maintain law's inequality.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/lasr.12629
#sociology #criminology #lawprofs

EllisMonk Nov 21, 2022

https://blog.google/technology/ai/using-ai-to-study-12-years-of-representation-in-tv/

This study used the Monk Skin Tone Scale (MST) to examine #colorism in representation in TV. They found screen time disparities for darker-skinned characters - especially darker-skinned female characters.

Using AI to study 12 years of representation in TV

A new report from the Geena Davis Institute, Google Research and USC uses AI to analyze representation in media.

Google