Thursday, 21 September 2017

The invention of AI ‘gaydar’ could be the start of something much worse

Two weeks ago, a pair of researchers from Stanford University made a startling claim. Using hundreds of thousands of images taken from a dating website, they said they had trained a facial recognition system that could identify whether someone was straight or gay just by looking at them. The work was first covered by The Economist, and other publications soon followed suit, with headlines like “New AI can guess whether you're gay or straight from a photograph” and “AI Can Tell If You're Gay From a Photo, and It's Terrifying.”

As you might have guessed, it’s not as straightforward as that. (And to be clear, based on this work alone, AI can’t tell whether someone is gay or straight from a photo.) But the research captures common fears...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/21/16332760/ai-sexuality-gaydar-photo-physiognomy

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-invention-of-ai-gaydar-could-be.html

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