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A startup company called Qoves has developed an AI-powered beauty assessment tool that tells you how attractive you are. The free version spits out a list of your “predicted flaws'' and explains what sort of surgical interventions and expensive serums are needed to “fix” you. They’re not the only ones playing around with AI for this purpose, there are an alarming number of these sort of beauty assessment algorithms online. Face++, a facial recognition platform developed by China’s Megvii Technology, for example, has a tool that gives you a “Beauty Score”. It also purports to tell you how attractive you are from both a male and female perspective.How does a beauty scoring algorithm work? Good question; nobody really knows. Face++ won’t reveal the workings of its algorithm. Qoves’s tool, meanwhile, is trained on a dataset of hundreds of thousands of pictures scored manually by humans and extrapolates attractiveness from that. One thing we can say for certain about these sorts of tools is that they often reflect Eurocentric beauty biases. 2016, for example, saw the world’s first international beauty contest judged entirely by algorithm. Guess what? Out of 44 winners, nearly all were white, a handful were Asian, and only one had dark skin.In no more than two sentences, discuss why using an AI tool to rate attractiveness, for a sample of Unsplash photos of people, may be problematic. In your response include at least two relevant things you learned from this article.

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A startup company called Qoves has developed an AI-powered beauty assessment tool that tells you how attractive you are. The free version spits out a list of your “predicted flaws'' and explains what sort of surgical interventions and expensive serums are needed to “fix” you. They’re not the only ones playing around with AI for this purpose, there are an alarming number of these sort of beauty assessment algorithms online. Face++, a facial recognition platform developed by China’s Megvii Technology, for example, has a tool that gives you a “Beauty Score”. It also purports to tell you how attractive you are from both a male and female perspective.How does a beauty scoring algorithm work? Good question; nobody really knows. Face++ won’t reveal the workings of its algorithm. Qoves’s tool, meanwhile, is trained on a dataset of hundreds of thousands of pictures scored manually by humans and extrapolates attractiveness from that. One thing we can say for certain about these sorts of tools is that they often reflect Eurocentric beauty biases. 2016, for example, saw the world’s first international beauty contest judged entirely by algorithm. Guess what? Out of 44 winners, nearly all were white, a handful were Asian, and only one had dark skin.In no more than two sentences, discuss why using an AI tool to rate attractiveness, for a sample of Unsplash photos of people, may be problematic. In your response include at least two relevant things you learned from this article.

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Using an AI tool to rate attractiveness can be problematic as it may reflect biases, such as Eurocentric beauty standards, as evidenced by the results of the world's first international beauty contest judged by an algorithm. Additionally, the workings of these algorithms are often not transparent, making it difficult to understand and challenge their assessments.

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