'I was shocked was so easy': ​meet the profsor who says facial regnn ​​n tell if you're gay | Artificial telligence (AI) | The Guardian

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

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. ”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. Human judg, by ntrast, were able to intify the straight and gay people 61% and 54% of s, rpectively. “I was jt shocked to disver that is so easy for an algorhm to distguish between gay and straight people, ” Kosski tells me.

’ 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.

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

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. “Th, ” he wr his paper, “gay men are predicted to have smaller jaws and chs, slimmer eyebrows, longer nos and larger foreheads... He be prickly when I prs him on Rsia, potg to s dire rerd on gay rights.

A COMPUTER CAN TELL IF YOU'RE GAY JT BY LOOKG AT YOUR FACE. 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"GAY MEN AND WOMEN TEND TO HAVE GENR-ATYPIL FACIAL MORPHOLOGY, EXPRSN, AND GROOMG STYL," ACRDG TO A PAPER WANG AND KOSSKI ARE PUBLISHG THE JOURNAL OF PERSONALY AND SOCIAL {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THEY THEORIZED THAT, IF PRENATAL HORMON AFFECT SEXUALY, "GAY MEN SHOULD TEND TO HAVE MORE FEME FACIAL FEATUR THAN HETEROSEXUAL MEN—SMALLER JAWS AND CHS, SLIMMER EYEBROWS, LONGER NOS, AND LARGER FOREHEADS."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LBIANS, THEY POS, HAVE MORE "MASCULE" {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"LBIANS TEND TO E LS EYE MAKP, HAD DARKER HAIR, AND WORE LS REVEALG CLOTH (NOTE THE HIGHER NECKLE)—DITG LS FEME GROOMG AND STYLE. 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(BISEXUALS AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE, AND NON-WHE PEOPLE OF ANY ORIENTATN, WERE EXCLUD.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WANG AND KOSSKI SAID THEY ATTEMPTED TO GATHER A MORE DIVERSE SAMPLE BUT "THE PREJUDICE AGAST GAY PEOPLE AND THE ADOPTN OF ONLE DATG WEBS IS UNEVENLY DISTRIBUTED ACROSS GROUPS CHARACTERIZED BY DIFFERENT ETHNICI."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THEY ALSO NCE THEIR WORK ULD BE DANGERO: "OUR FDGS EXPOSE A THREAT TO THE PRIVACY AND SAFETY OF GAY MEN AND WOMEN," THEY WRE, PECIALLY PLAC WHERE HOMOSEXUALY IS A CRIME. “WE WERE REALLY DISTURBED BY THE RULTS AND SPENT MUCH TIME NSIRG WHETHER THEY SHOULD BE MA PUBLIC AT ALL. WE DID NOT WANT TO ENABLE THE VERY RISKS THAT WE ARE WARNG AGAST.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FACIAL REGNN TECHNOLOGY N BE EFUL FOR FDG CRIMALS A CROWD, BUT N BE A RISK FOR SOMEONE WHO DON'T WANT TO WEAR THEIR ORIENTATN ON THEIR SLEEVE—OR THEIR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

(A uple of days later, Kosski tells me he has checked his slis; fact, he says, he didn’t tell the Rsians about his “AI gaydar”.

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.

IS YOUR FACE GAY? CONSERVATIVE? CRIMAL? AI REARCHERS ARE ASKG THE WRONG QUTNS

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. All men wh genr-atypil exprsns are gay)?

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