Tech updates skin tone range

Harvard University professor Ellis Monk collaborated with Google to create a new range of skin tones to help technology be more accurate, inclusive, and diverse. The Monk Skin Tone Scale includes 10 skin tones and replaces a scale with six tones that has been used since 1975. Technology such as image searches, photo filters, and facial recognition has not traditionally been designed to detect a wide variety of skin tones, so they often don’t work well—or at all—for people with darker skin. For example, Monk said, an online search for “cute babies” might only turn up babies with lighter skin. “That’s not a very inclusive experience for people at all,” Monk said. Google said it would integrate the scale across its platforms.…

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