Microsoft AI editors show signs of inaccuracies, mistake one coloured member of Little Mix for other

Just about a week after it decided to fire employees in favour of artificial intelligence (AI) editors, Microsoft’s AI editors are already showing signs of inaccuracy. The AI reportedly used a photo of Leigh-Anne Pinnock on a story about her fellow bandmate Jade Thirlwall’s experiences with racism. Thirlwall and Pinnock are the two women of colour in the four-member band Little Mix.

Thirlwall criticized the company through her Twitter, tagging MSN, Microsoft’s news publishing website on her post. “@MSN If you’re going to copy and paste articles from other accurate media outlets, you might want to make sure you’re using an image of the correct mixed race member of the group,” she wrote.

She also said that such occurrences have become so common for her and Pinnock that it has “become a running joke”. She added, “It offends me that you couldn’t differentiate the two women of colour out of four members of a group… DO BETTER!”