Inclusion Ethics in AI: Use Cases in African Fashion
Christelle Scharff,
James Brusseau,
Krishna Mohan Bathula
et al.
Abstract:This paper addresses the ethics of inclusion in artificial in-telligence in the context of African fashion. Despite the proliferation of fashion-related AI applications and da-tasets global diversity remains limited, and African fash-ion is significantly underrepresented. This paper docu-ments two use-cases that enhance AI's inclusivity by in-corporating sub-Saharan fashion elements. The first case details the creation of a Senegalese fashion dataset and a model for classifying traditional apparel using transf… Show more
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