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Contents:
- THE GAY-O-METER! ?️? LGBTQ QUIZ
- 'I WAS SHOCKED WAS SO EASY': MEET THE PROFSOR WHO SAYS FACIAL REGNN N TELL IF YOU'RE GAY
- I JT WNSED KIDS STG ON ANOTHER'S FACE BEE HE "SEEMED GAY."
- FACIAL HTS SHARPEN PEOPLE'S 'GAYDAR'
THE GAY-O-METER! ?️? LGBTQ QUIZ
Unsure of your sexual inty? This tt n reveal whether you're gay, bisexual, bi-cur or straight. Try this GAY-O-METER quiz now and fix your 'gaydar'! * gay o face *
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'I WAS SHOCKED WAS SO EASY': MEET THE PROFSOR WHO SAYS FACIAL REGNN N TELL IF YOU'RE GAY
* gay o face *
”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.
I JT WNSED KIDS STG ON ANOTHER'S FACE BEE HE "SEEMED GAY."
’ 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.
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FACIAL HTS SHARPEN PEOPLE'S 'GAYDAR'
(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”.
Human Rights Watch works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr peopl' rights, and wh activists reprentg a multiplicy of inti and issu.