no code implementations • 26 May 2021 • Margot Hanley, Solon Barocas, Karen Levy, Shiri Azenkot, Helen Nissenbaum
In this paper, we investigate the ethical dilemmas faced by companies that have adopted the use of computer vision for producing alt text: textual descriptions of images for blind and low vision people, We use Facebook's automatic alt text tool as our primary case study.
no code implementations • 27 Nov 2020 • Margot Hanley, Apoorv Khandelwal, Hadar Averbuch-Elor, Noah Snavely, Helen Nissenbaum
Important ethical concerns arising from computer vision datasets of people have been receiving significant attention, and a number of datasets have been withdrawn as a result.
