Two proment LGBT groups lashed out at rearchers who found that a facial regnn software uld duce whether a person was gay or heterosexual.
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IS YOUR FACE GAY? CONSERVATIVE? CRIMAL? AI REARCHERS ARE ASKG THE WRONG QUTNS
They gleaned more than 35, 000 pictur of self-intified gay and heterosexual people om a public datg webse and fed them to an algorhm that learned the subtle differenc their featur. They then showed the software randomly selected face pictur and asked to gus whether the people them were gay or rults were unsettlg. Acrdg to the study, first published last week, the algorhm was able to rrectly distguish between gay and heterosexual men 81 percent of the time, and gay and heterosexual women 71 percent of the time, far outperformg human judg.
Given the prevalence of such technology, the rearchers wrote, “our fdgs expose a threat to the privacy and safety of gay men and women. ” Far om protectg the LGBT muny, they say, uld be ed as a weapon agast gay and lbian people as well as heterosexuals who uld be accurately “outed” as gay.