The famo AI gaydar study was repeated – and, no, n't tell if you're straight or not jt om your face • The Register

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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.

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

“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.

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

“Many employers or ernments n discrimate agast dividuals if they believe they are lbian or gay.

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

“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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

“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? 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.

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

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. So, do this mean that AI really n tell if someone is gay or straight om their face?