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Gender Bias is a real thing and Meta is using AI to combat it

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On the internet and in the real world women are drastically under-represented than men in all types of things whether it be profession or the entertainment industry. If a need of information arises we automatically go to Wikipedia but Wikipedia is not as diverse as you might think because women are underrepresented over there as well. The website does not give the credit and recognition that is deserved by women because only 20% of all biographies on Wikipedia belong to women. That percentage deteriorates further when we talk about industries that have male domination like science and underrepresented historical communities. Addressing the fact that gender bias exists especially on the internet, Angela Fan who is an AI researcher for Meta, worked on this topic for her PhD.