How Microsoft is fixing AI bias in blind representation |
Microsoft purchased over 20 million minutes of video from Be My Eyes, a nonprofit accessibility platform, to retrain its AI models after discovering they were generating offensive and inaccurate depictions of blind people.
Microsoft's new Head Jenny Lay-Flurrie consolidated Trusted Technology Group, discovered the problem while overseeing accessibility initiatives, which was that AI-generated imagery showed blind people wearing full blindfolds stereotypical caricatures drawn from biased training data reflecting societal prejudices........