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The cropping issue is an unsolvable one for AI. It doesn’t matter how unbiased you want the model to be, if an algorithm has to chose between 2+ faces with no “correct” answer, it can’t win.

You might just think, why doesn’t it just identify the skin color and crop randomly based on that? Now what if there is two races of men and one woman in the image? Or vice versa? You quickly get into if/else hell.

The algorithm can be tuned to no end, but in the end, it’s dealing with an infinite amount of possibilities (not just faces) and it’s a problem that proves Twitter just needs to let the users adjust the crop or focus themselves.




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