Twitter said Friday it would offer a cash "bounty" to users and researchers to help root out algorithmic bias on the social media platform. The San Francisco tech firm said this would be "the industry's first algorithmic bias bounty competition," with prizes up to $3,500. The competition is based on the "bug bounty" programs some websites and platforms offer to find security holes and vulnerabilities, according to Twitter executives Rumman Chowdhury and Jutta Williams. They said the hacker bounty model offers promise in finding algorithmic bias. The move comes amid growing concerns about automated algorithmic systems, which, despite an effort to be neutral, can incorporate racial or other forms of bias.

Source: Mint July 31, 2021 00:11 UTC