Description: Users selecting “no preference” were shown by Coffee Meets Bagels’s matching algorithm more potential matches with the same ethnicity, which was acknowledged and justified by its founder as a means to maximize connection rate without sufficient user information.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Coffee Meets Bagel developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Coffee Meets Bagel users having no ethnicity preference and Coffee Meets Bagel users.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
280
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2013-07-30
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
laweekly.com · 2013
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I have nothing against Asian guys.
In fact, when my roommate told me the other night that he sometimes sees John Cho (Harold, of Harold and Kumar) at his gym, I squealed. I briefly considered joining the gym, but then I remembered I've Goog…
buzzfeednews.com · 2016
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Yet, it seems like a relatively common experience, even if you aren’t from a minority group.
Amanda Chicago Lewis (who now works at BuzzFeed) wrote about her similar experience on Coffee Meets Bagel for LA Weekly : “I've been on the site fo…
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