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Understanding Skin Bias in AI: A Call to Action

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Your Data Helps Fight Skin Bias in AI — Here’s Why That Matters

🤖 What Is Skin Bias in AI?

Artificial Intelligence is transforming healthcare. From skin scanners to virtual dermatologists, AI tools are now used to detect everything from acne to cancer. But there’s a problem:

Most AI models weren’t trained on people of color.

That means many skin-focused AI systems struggle to accurately recognize, diagnose, or understand skin conditions on Black and Brown skin. The result? Misdiagnoses, product mismatches, or total exclusion from digital care.

🧬 Why This Is Personal — Especially for Women of Color

Women of color already face serious barriers in skincare and health:

  • Dermatologists often lack training on melanated skin.
  • Many products irritate sensitive underarms or fail to address discoloration.
  • Data about our skin is rarely collected or studied.

This creates a dangerous cycle: if we’re not in the data, we’re not in the diagnosis.

That’s why your input — your quiz answers, your skin scans, your lived experience — matters more than ever.

📊 What Happens When You Share Your Data?

When you take our quiz or use the PondaPits mobile scan feature, you’re doing more than just getting a product recommendation. You’re helping us:

  1. Train AI to recognize skin concerns on diverse skin tones.
    Most current data sets are over 80% lighter skin tones. We’re changing that.
  2. Discover patterns in underarm irritation, discoloration, and sweat cycles unique to Black and Brown women.
  3. Build culturally competent, bias-free AI tools that serve our communities with empathy and accuracy.

And most importantly:

🔐 Your data is anonymous, secure, and only used to improve health outcomes for women of color.

🌍 Real Change Starts With Representation in Data

AI can only be as smart as the data we feed it. And for too long, the data has excluded us. But now, every scan, every symptom, every story adds up to a future where digital health finally works for everyone.

✊🏾 How You Can Help

✅ Take the Know Your Underarm Health Quiz
✅ Share your underarm scan using our mobile tool
✅ Opt in to anonymous data sharing when prompted
✅ Tell your friends — the more data, the better our care gets

Together, we’re not just building a better product —
we’re rewriting the future of inclusive health tech.

💬 Got questions about how your data is used?

We’re happy to answer. Email us at@pondapits.com

📊 Infographic: Fighting Skin Bias in AI

Here’s the companion infographic for social media, your website, or in-app onboarding.

🧠 Fighting Skin Bias in AI: Why Your Underarm Scan Matters

[1] THE PROBLEM

  • 🧪 80% of skin AI is trained on lighter skin tones
  • 🤷🏽‍♀️ Many tools misdiagnose or miss conditions on melanated skin
  • 🧍🏾 Women of color are underrepresented in medical and skincare data

[2] WHAT SKIN BIAS LOOKS LIKE

ProblemResult for WOC
AI misreads discolorationIncorrect recommendations
Irritation misclassifiedNo solution or wrong one
Hormonal changes ignoredSkin care doesn’t adapt

[3] YOUR DATA = YOUR POWER
By scanning or answering the quiz, you:

  • 📸 Help AI see and understand melanated skin
  • 📊 Add missing data to research
  • 🔄 Make future care smarter & more inclusive

[4] HOW WE PROTECT YOUR DATA

  • 🔒 Fully anonymized
  • 💡 Used only to improve care for women of color
  • 🧬 Never sold or shared with advertisers

[5] JOIN THE MOVEMENT
🎯 Scan. Answer. Share.
✊🏾 Power AI that works for your skin.

🌱 PondaPits — where wellness meets equity.

👉 What’s Next?

  1. Take our quick quiz here: CLICK

2. Contact us to receive our new app – in testing phase, you and your friends can be the first to try! CLICK

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