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Buolamwini and Gebru: Gender Shades

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Evaluation, safety and interpretability · EMPIRICAL

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What changed

Built a balanced evaluation set and quantified large subgroup error disparities in three commercial gender classifiers.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact two-author 2018 paper and the systems, benchmark and demographic categories it tested. It does not establish the behavior of every face-analysis system, every demographic taxonomy or later product versions.

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The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact two-author 2018 paper and the systems, benchmark and demographic categories it tested. It does not establish the behavior of every face-analysis system, every demographic taxonomy or later product versions.

Contributors

Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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