A Stanford scientist says he built a gaydar g "the lamt" AI to prove a pot

Contents:

• WHY STANFORD REARCHERS TRIED TO CREATE A ‘GAYDAR’ MACHE
• ROW OVER AI THAT 'INTIFI GAY FAC'
• THE FAMO AI GAYDAR STUDY WAS REPEATED – AND, NO, N'T TELL IF YOU'RE STRAIGHT OR NOT JT OM YOUR FACE
• HOW THE COLD WAR 'U MACHE' TRIED TO TERME GAY OM STRAIGHT
• THE GAY-DETECTG F MACHE
• GAYDAR: VISUAL TECTN OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN AMONG GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN
• 'I WAS SHOCKED WAS SO EASY': ​MEET THE PROFSOR WHO SAYS FACIAL REGNN ​​N TELL IF YOU'RE GAY
• PROFSORS CREATE ‘GAYDAR’ MACHE WH AI
• A STANFORD SCIENTIST SAYS HE BUILT A GAYDAR G “THE LAMT” AI TO PROVE A POT
• RNTHIS 'PENIS LIE TECTOR' HELPED DOCTORS NDUCT GAY AVERSN THERAPY
• TAG ARCHIV: GAY TECTORS
• GAYDAR
• UGANDA N NOT AFFORD TO BUY S 'GAY TECTOR' MACHE

WHY STANFORD REARCHERS TRIED TO CREATE A ‘GAYDAR’ MACHE

Those seekg same-sex partners were classified as gay; those seekg oppose-sex partners were assumed to be 300, 000 imag were whtled down to 35, 000 that showed fac clearly and met certa creria.

ROW OVER AI THAT 'INTIFI GAY FAC'

All were whe, the rearchers said, bee they uld not fd enough datg profil of gay mori to generate a statistilly valid imag were cropped further and then procsed through a ep nral work, a layered mathematil system pable of intifyg patterns vast amounts of Kosski said he did not build his tool om scratch, as many suggted; rather, he began wh a wily ed facial analysis program to show jt how easy would be for anyone to pull off somethg Kosski and Yilun WangThe software extracts rmatn om thoands of facial data pots, cludg nose width, mtache shape, eyebrows, rners of the mouth, hairle and even aspects of the face we don’t have words for. Both humans and mache were given pairgs of two fac — one straight, one gay — and asked to pick who was more likely participants, who were procured through Amazon Mechanil Turk, a supplier for digal tasks, were advised to “e the bt of your tun.

THE FAMO AI GAYDAR STUDY WAS REPEATED – AND, NO, N'T TELL IF YOU'RE STRAIGHT OR NOT JT OM YOUR FACE

And when the tool was challenged wh other scenars — such as distguishg between gay men’s Facebook photos and straight men’s onle datg photos — accuracy dropped to 74 ’s also the issue of false posiv, which plague any predictn mol aimed at intifyg a mory group, said William T.

A facial sn that is 91 percent accurate would misintify 9 percent of straight people as gay; the example above, that’s 85 software would also mistake 9 percent of gay people as straight people. ”He noted an email that “the algorhms were only traed and tted on whe, Amerin, openly gay men (and whe, Amerin, prumed straight parisons), ” and therefore probably would not have broar a Face RevealsRegardls of effectivens, the study rais knotty qutns about perceptns of sexual orientatn.

HOW THE COLD WAR 'U MACHE' TRIED TO TERME GAY OM STRAIGHT

”Even many experts who are supportive of the theory, said they uld not see how a study of self-selected datg photos ma the se that gay people have genr-atypil fac, let alone a theory that attribut distctive featur to discsn of P. It is Barnard College, not Barnard we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn D, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: The ‘Gaydar’ Mache Cs an Uproar. Image source, Stanford UniversyImage ptn, The study created pose fac judged most and least likely to belong to homosexualsA facial regnn experiment that claims to be able to distguish between gay and heterosexual people has sparked a row between s creators and two leadg LGBT rights Stanford Universy study claims s software regnis facial featur relatg to sexual orientatn that are not perceived by human work has been acced of beg "dangero" and "junk science" the scientists volved say the are "knee-jerk" reactns.

Details of the peer-reviewed project are due to be published the Journal of Personaly and Social jawsFor their study, the rearchers traed an algorhm g the photos of more than 14, 000 whe Amerins taken om a datg ed between one and five of each person's pictur and took people's sexualy as self-reported on the datg rearchers said the rultg software appeared to be able to distguish between gay and heterosexual men and women. In one tt, when the algorhm was prented wh two photos where one picture was fely of a gay man and the other heterosexual, was able to terme which was which 81% of the women, the figure was 71%. "But their software did not perform as well other suatns, cludg a tt which was given photos of 70 gay men and 930 heterosexual asked to pick 100 men "most likely to be gay" missed 23 of s summary of the study, the Enomist - which was first to report the rearch - poted to several "limatns" cludg a ncentratn on whe Amerins and the e of datg se pictur, which were "likely to be particularly revealg of sexual orientatn".

THE GAY-DETECTG F MACHE

"This rearch isn't science or news, but 's a scriptn of bety standards on datg s that ignor huge segments of the LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer/qutng) muny, cludg people of lour, transgenr people, olr dividuals, and other LGBTQ people who don't want to post photos on datg s, " said Jim Halloran, chief digal officer of Glaad, a media-monorg body.

"The 'subtle' differenc uld be a nsequence of gay and straight people choosg to portray themselv systematilly different ways, rather than differenc facial appearance self, " said Prof Benedict Jon, who ns the Face Rearch Lab at the Universy of was also important, he said, for the technil tails of the analysis algorhm to be published to see if they stood up to rmed cricism.

GAYDAR: VISUAL TECTN OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN AMONG GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN

Unsurprisgly, that origal work kicked up a massive fs at the time, wh many skeptil that puters, which have zero knowledge or unrstandg of somethg as plex as sexualy, uld really predict whether someone was gay or straight om their fizzog. The Stanford eggheads behd that first rearch – Yilun Wang, a graduate stunt, and Michal Kosski, an associate profsor – even claimed that not only uld nral works ss out a person’s sexual orientatn, algorhms had an even better gaydar than humans.

“Moreover, this entire le of thought is premised on the ia that there is value to be gaed workg out why 'gay face' classifiers might work – value further scribg, fg and settg out the methodology for any tpot dictator or bigot wh a puter who might want to opprs queer people. Even though there are exampl throughout history om the ancient Greeks to the 18th century of people practisg physgnomy, basilly judgg a person’s character or liftyle om their facial featur, a recent study om Stanford Universy giv a morn-day versn to ntemplate—puters termg if a person is gay or straight through facial-tectn technology.

Datg webse and found that a puter algorhm was rrect 81% of the time when was ed to distguish between straight and gay men, and accurate 74% of the time for women. One pattern the mach tected the study was gay women and men typilly had “genr-atypil, ” “groomg styl, ” featur and exprsns—gay men appeared more feme and gay women appeared more mascule.

'I WAS SHOCKED WAS SO EASY': ​MEET THE PROFSOR WHO SAYS FACIAL REGNN ​​N TELL IF YOU'RE GAY

Another trend the mach intified was that gay women tend to have larger jaws and smaller foreheads then straight women while gay men had larger foreheads, longer nos and narrower jaws than straight men. As quoted an article by The Guardian on the subject, Nick Rule, an associate profsor of psychology at the Universy of Toronto who has published rearch on the science of gaydar said, “It’s certaly unsettlg. OttawaHow the Cold War 'u mache' tried to terme gay om straightA relic of Ottawa's efforts to root out homosexuals the ary and public service durg the Cold War is back the news followg a class-actn lawsu om LGBT dividuals who lost their jobs.

PROFSORS CREATE ‘GAYDAR’ MACHE WH AI

Feral ernment facg class-actn lawsu om LGBT public servants who lost jobsFROM THE ARCHIVES | Government missned 'F Mache' 1960sGovernment missned 'F Mache' 1960s to tect homosexualsIt's not fictn — although sounds like somethg straight out of a dystopian so-lled "u mache" was a homosexualy tectn system missned by the Canadian ernment durg the Cold War — and veloped largely by a psychologist at Carleton Universy Ottawa — to keep LGBT people out of the public service or ary. While the mache is long gone, s legacy is back the news after the feral ernment was h wh a class-actn lawsu this week om former public servants who lost their jobs bee of their sexual fac class-actn lawsu over fired LGBT civil servantsGay and lbian civil servants were driven out of the Canadian ary and public service begng the 1950s, but the practice ntued after homosexualy was removed om the Crimal Co the the time, homosexuals were perceived by the ernment as weak, unreliable and potentially disloyal. Durg those years, Canada’s mpaign to elimate all homosexuals om the ary, police, and the civil service was particularly broad and unfivg, wh the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) pilg fil on over 9, 000 spected homosexuals.

A siar vice lled a plethysmograph, which nnected directly to the subject’s genals, was ed for siar purpos after the u mache was retired, but the Canadian ernment eventually put a halt to the RCMP’s anti-homosexual activi. Even though there are exampl throughout history om the ancient Greeks to the 18th century of people practicg physgnomy, basilly judgg a person’s character or liftyle om their facial featur, a recent study om Stanford Universy giv a morn-day versn to ntemplate—puters termg if a person is gay or straight through facial-tectn technology.

A STANFORD SCIENTIST SAYS HE BUILT A GAYDAR G “THE LAMT” AI TO PROVE A POT

Datg webse and found that a puter algorhm was rrect 81% of the time when was ed to distguish between straight and gay men, and accurate 74% of the time for women.

RNTHIS 'PENIS LIE TECTOR' HELPED DOCTORS NDUCT GAY AVERSN THERAPY

As quoted an article by The Guardian on the subject, Nick Rule, an associate profsor of psychology at the Universy of Toronto who has published rearch on the science of gaydar said, “It’s certaly unsettlg.

To tt for the prence of this abily gay men, the rearcher asked self-intified gay and straight male participants to view a seri of unfaiar men on viotape and terme the sexual orientatn of each. The higher overall accuracy of gay men monstrated a trend level difference om their straight horts although fallg short (primarily due to small sample size) of the p < 0. Weeks after his trip to Mosw, Kosski published a ntroversial paper which he showed how face-analysg algorhms uld distguish between photographs of gay and straight people.

TAG ARCHIV: GAY TECTORS

”In a paper published last year, Kosski and a Stanford puter scientist, Yilun Wang, reported that a mache-learng system was able to distguish between photos of gay and straight people wh a high gree of accuracy.

Prented wh two pictur – one of a gay person, the other straight – the algorhm was traed to distguish the two 81% of s volvg imag of men and 74% of photographs of women.

GAYDAR

’ Photograph: Jason Henry/The GuardianNeher did many other people, and there was an immediate backlash when the rearch – dubbed “AI gaydar” – was previewed the Enomist magaze. ) There was also anger that Kosski had nducted rearch on a technology that uld be ed to persecute gay people untri such as Iran and Sdi Arabia, where homosexualy is punishable by ath.

UGANDA N NOT AFFORD TO BUY S 'GAY TECTOR' MACHE

His fdgs are nsistent wh the prenatal hormone theory of sexual orientatn, he says, which argu that the levels of androgens foet are exposed to the womb help terme whether people are straight or gay.

Jt as society is movg towards viewg sexual orientatn as a fluid spectm, two Stanford Universy profsors have found face regnn technology n tegorize people as ‘gay’ or ‘straight’, based on a sgle picture. Last week, The Enomist published a story around Stanford Graduate School of Bs rearchers Michal Kosski and Yilun Wang’s claims that they had built artificial telligence that uld tell if we are gay or straight based on a few imag of our fac.