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Contents:
- 'I WAS SHOCKED WAS SO EASY': MEET THE PROFSOR WHO SAYS FACIAL REGNN N TELL IF YOU'RE GAY
- ROW OVER AI THAT 'INTIFI GAY FAC'
- SLAYG OF GAY MAN NEW YORK BEG VTIGATED AS A POSSIBLE BIASED CINT
- BEYONCé HONORS GAY FAN WHO WAS KILLED, ALLEGEDLY FOR VOGUG TO HER MIC
- CHA PLANS OUTREACH TO GAY COMMUNI A BID TO CURB MPOX
'I WAS SHOCKED WAS SO EASY': MEET THE PROFSOR WHO SAYS FACIAL REGNN N TELL IF YOU'RE GAY
Rearchers and LGBT groups clash over facial regnn tech that supposedly spots gay people. * gay face cover *
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.
ROW OVER AI THAT 'INTIFI GAY FAC'
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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.
SLAYG OF GAY MAN NEW YORK BEG VTIGATED AS A POSSIBLE BIASED CINT
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BEYONCé HONORS GAY FAN WHO WAS KILLED, ALLEGEDLY FOR VOGUG TO HER MIC
He be prickly when I prs him on Rsia, potg to s dire rerd on gay rights. (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”.
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CHA PLANS OUTREACH TO GAY COMMUNI A BID TO CURB MPOX
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"Gay men had narrower jaws and longer nos, while lbians had larger jaws.