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• AI N NOW INTIFY PEOPLE AS GAY OR STRAIGHT OM THEIR PHOTO
• THE FAMO AI GAYDAR STUDY WAS REPEATED – AND, NO, N'T TELL IF YOU'RE STRAIGHT OR NOT JT OM YOUR FACE
• STANFORD UNIVERSY'S AI N TELL IF YOU'RE GAY OR STRAIGHT OM A PHOTO
• NEW AI CAN GUS WHETHER YOU’RE GAY OR STRAIGHT OM A PHOTOGRAPH
• NEW PUTER ALGORHM N WORK OUT IF YOU ARE GAY OR STRAIGHT OM YOUR PICTURE
• CAN ARTIFICIAL TELLIGENCE TELL IF A PERSON IS STRAIGHT OR GAY?
• AI CAN TELL IF YOU'RE GAY: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PREDICTS SEXUALY FROM ONE PHOTO WH STARTLG ACCURACY
• AI N TELL IF YOU’RE GAY OR STRAIGHT JT BY YOUR FACE - STUDY

AI N NOW INTIFY PEOPLE AS GAY OR STRAIGHT OM THEIR PHOTO

A study om Stanford Universy suggts that a ep nral work (DNN) n distguish between gay and straight people, wh 81 per cent accuracy men and 71 per cent women. The DNN, a mache learng system, was prented wh pairs of imag, where one dividual was gay and the other was straight. Acrdg to the rearch, there were certa trends facial featur that distguished between gay and straight people.

Narrower jaws, larger foreheads, and longer nos were mon among gay men, while gay women were more likely to have smaller foreheads and wir jaws.

The thors of the report, Yilun Wang and Michal Kosski, nclud that homosexual men and women have more androgyno or genr-atypil featur, exprsns, and groomg styl. “One n easily envisn how g AI to label facial photos ‘lbian’ or ‘gay’ n be ed nefar ways — to hurt dividuals, vlate privacy, make public rmatn that should be private, ” she wrote an email to The Varsy. “Many employers or ernments n discrimate agast dividuals if they believe they are lbian or gay.

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

“I would say that whether g AI or g one’s own ey, the ia that you n tell who’s gay and who’s straight by merely lookg at a picture of their face is ridiculo, ” she said. Hirst add that, although buildg a facial ‘gay or straight intifier’ is not very helpful, uld not be abed eher. AI n now intify people as gay or straight om their photo.

This week, a new pabily has been add to the list: A group of rearchers Swzerland say they’ve veloped an AI mol that n tell if you’re gay or straight. The rearchers report that by studyg subjects’ electril bra activy, the mol is able to differentiate between homosexual and heterosexual men wh an accuracy rate of 83%.

The thors ntend that “still is of high scientific tert whether there exist blogil patterns that differ between persons wh different sexual orientatns” and that is “paramount to also search for possible functnal differenc” between heterosexual and homosexual people. “There is no such thg as bra rrelat of homosexualy. “Hard to thk of a grosser or more irrponsible applitn of AI than bary-based ‘who’s the gay?

STANFORD UNIVERSY'S AI N TELL IF YOU'RE GAY OR STRAIGHT OM A PHOTO

This isn’t the first time a mache learng paper has been cricized for tryg to tect signs of homosexualy. In 2018, rearchers at Stanford tried to e AI to classify people as gay or straight, based on photos taken om a datg webse. The Swiss study was published June, ls than a month after Uganda’s print signed a new, reprsive anti-LGBTQ+ law — one of the harsht the world — that clus the ath penalty for “aggravated homosexualy.

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. Notably, straight women were more likely to wear eye shadow than gay women Wang and Kosski’s dataset. Straight men were more likely to wear glass than gay men.

NEW AI CAN GUS WHETHER YOU’RE GAY OR STRAIGHT OM A PHOTOGRAPH

So, do this mean that AI really n tell if someone is gay or straight om their face? It would mean that blogil factors such as a person’s facial stcture would dite whether someone was gay or not. “The paper propos replitg the origal 'gay fac' study a way that addrs ncerns about social factors fluencg the classifier.

In some untri, homosexualy is illegal, so the technology uld endanger people’s liv if ed by thori to "out" and ta spected gay folk.

“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.

NEW PUTER ALGORHM N WORK OUT IF YOU ARE GAY OR STRAIGHT OM YOUR PICTURE

Michal Kosski and Yilun Wang's algorhm n accurately gus if a person is straight or gay based on a photo of their face. This was achieved g a sample of over 35, 000 imag that had been publicly posted on a US datg se, wh an even reprentatn of gay and straight (termed through their profil) and male and female subjects.

Gay men tend to have "genr-atypil" featur, exprsns and groomg styl, meang they appeared more feme. The oppose was te for gay women, who generally had larger jaws and smaller foreheads. The system was eventually able to distguish between gay and straight men 81 percent of the time, and 74 percent of the time for women, jt by reviewg a photo.

The fdgs strongly support the theory that the same hormon affectg a fet' velopg bone stcture play a part termg sexualy, meang that people are born gay - 's not a choice. Google rults show the phrase "is my hband gay?

CAN ARTIFICIAL TELLIGENCE TELL IF A PERSON IS STRAIGHT OR GAY?

There's also the ncern that the software uld be ed untri such as Iran, Sudan, Sdi Arabia and Yemen, where homosexualy is punishable by ath.

The algorhm found var physil featur to distguish gay men and women om straight men and women.

AI CAN TELL IF YOU'RE GAY: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PREDICTS SEXUALY FROM ONE PHOTO WH STARTLG ACCURACY

It turns out you don’t need to rely on your own gaydar bee there is puter algorhm n terme wh a high level or accuracy. They found artificial telligence was able to distguish between gay and straight men wh 81 per cent accuracy, and 74 per cent for femal. Acrdg to the study, the software was able to distguish sexual orientatn by the by pickg up on subtle differenc facial data found homosexual men had narrower jaws, larger foreheads and longer nos, while gay women had larger jaws and smaller foreheads than their straight unterparts.

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.

AI N TELL IF YOU’RE GAY OR STRAIGHT JT BY YOUR FACE - STUDY

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.