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GAYFACE
gay + face. gayface (ually ununtable, plural gayfac).
(rare, slang) An obv, apparent, or stereotypil appearance of homosexualy based on a person's untenance, often characterized by effemacy mal and masculy femal. Not jt bee of his famoly homoerotic sons but bee Shakpeare seems to have had-let's be blunt here-a ser se of gayface. 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 SHOCKED WAS SO EASY': MEET THE PROFSOR WHO SAYS FACIAL REGNN N TELL IF YOU'RE GAY
“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. 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...