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28th April 2018
07:10pm BST

The idea to diversify the search results reportedly first came about when Pinterest's first head of diversity and inclusion, Candice Morgan, was looking for hairstyle inspiration one day.
According to Wired, the platform continued to learn from her saved pins and began to show some recommendations - most of which didn't actually suit 4c, or tightly coiled, curls.
Pinterest ended up partnering with ModiFace, the augmented reality beauty app maker owned by L'Oreal, to create an algorithm that would be able to accurately detect the skin colour of people in images.
From there the team used ModiFace's third-party Face AI library, feeding it more and more examples until there was no more confusion between highlights and shadows.
It doesn't appear to be available in Ireland just yet, as it's still in the testing period.
But we reckon this would be a game changer if it was introduced worldwide.