Few days after I tweeted this MIT pulls down Tiny Images dataset following our paper @vinayprabhu

"MIT has taken offline its highly cited dataset that trained AI systems to potentially describe people using racist, misogynistic & other problematic terms." https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/01/mit_dataset_removed/ https://twitter.com/Abebab/status/1277709544307806208

" @vinayprabhu and Abeba Birhane pored over the MIT database and discovered thousands of images labelled with racist slurs for Black and Asian people, and derogatory terms used to describe women." https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/01/mit_dataset_removed/

"The dataset includes pictures of Black people & monkeys labeled with the N-word; women in bikinis, or holding their children, labeled whores;...linking everyday imagery to slurs & offensive language, and baking prejudice and bias into future AI models." https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/01/mit_dataset_removed/

You can read our paper (under review) here

Cc @vinayprabhu https://twitter.com/Abebab/status/1275849193895182336?s=19

Also, it was upsetting and emotionally draining exploring through that dataset