Rearchers and LGBT groups clash over facial regnn tech that supposedly spots gay people.
Contents:
- ROW OVER AI THAT 'INTIFI GAY FAC'
- JAWS GAY?
- GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN MAY HAVE DIFFERENT FACIAL SHAP, NEW STUDY SUGGTS
- MEET JEWISH GAY MEN TODAY!
ROW OVER AI THAT 'INTIFI GAY FAC'
* gay jaws *
Image source, Stanford UniversyImage ptn, The study created pose fac judged most and least likely to belong to homosexualsA facial regnn experiment that claims to be able to distguish between gay and heterosexual people has sparked a row between s creators and two leadg LGBT rights Stanford Universy study claims s software regnis facial featur relatg to sexual orientatn that are not perceived by human work has been acced of beg "dangero" and "junk science" the scientists volved say the are "knee-jerk" reactns. Details of the peer-reviewed project are due to be published the Journal of Personaly and Social jawsFor their study, the rearchers traed an algorhm g the photos of more than 14, 000 whe Amerins taken om a datg ed between one and five of each person's pictur and took people's sexualy as self-reported on the datg rearchers said the rultg software appeared to be able to distguish between gay and heterosexual men and women. In one tt, when the algorhm was prented wh two photos where one picture was fely of a gay man and the other heterosexual, was able to terme which was which 81% of the women, the figure was 71%.
JAWS GAY?
Filmg lotn of Jaws Aqunah (Uned Stat) at Gay Head Lighthoe (creds: Zanuck/Brown Productns, Universal Pictur) * gay jaws *
"Gay fac tend to be genr atypil, " the rearchers said. "Gay men had narrower jaws and longer nos, while lbians had larger jaws. "But their software did not perform as well other suatns, cludg a tt which was given photos of 70 gay men and 930 heterosexual asked to pick 100 men "most likely to be gay" missed 23 of s summary of the study, the Enomist - which was first to report the rearch - poted to several "limatns" cludg a ncentratn on whe Amerins and the e of datg se pictur, which were "likely to be particularly revealg of sexual orientatn".
"This rearch isn't science or news, but 's a scriptn of bety standards on datg s that ignor huge segments of the LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer/qutng) muny, cludg people of lour, transgenr people, olr dividuals, and other LGBTQ people who don't want to post photos on datg s, " said Jim Halloran, chief digal officer of Glaad, a media-monorg body. "The reckls fdgs uld serve as a weapon to harm both heterosexuals who are accurately outed, as well as gay and lbian people who are suatns where g out is dangero. "The 'subtle' differenc uld be a nsequence of gay and straight people choosg to portray themselv systematilly different ways, rather than differenc facial appearance self, " said Prof Benedict Jon, who ns the Face Rearch Lab at the Universy of was also important, he said, for the technil tails of the analysis algorhm to be published to see if they stood up to rmed cricism.
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GAY AND STRAIGHT MEN MAY HAVE DIFFERENT FACIAL SHAP, NEW STUDY SUGGTS
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Loted at the wternmost tip of Martha’s Veyard Aqunah, the Gay Head Cliffs are the anctral home of the Wampanoag people, many of whom still live the area. The Gay Head Light, which is more than 150 years old, is a betiful historic stcture – was recently moved om s origal lotn to save om erosn of the surroundg film buffs, lighthoe lookers and photographers alike, the Gay Head Cliffs of Aqunah are a stunng Jaws filmg lotn to spend a few hours. Shape differenc between the fac of homosexual and heterosexual men.
Prev studi have shown that homosexual men differ om heterosexual men several somatic tras and lay people accurately attribute sexual orientatn based on facial imag. Th, we may predict that morphologil differenc between fac of homosexual and heterosexual dividuals n cue to sexual orientatn. The ma aim of this study was to tt for possible differenc facial shape between heterosexual and homosexual men.
MEET JEWISH GAY MEN TODAY!
In Study 1, we ed geometric morphometrics to tt for differenc facial shape between homosexual and heterosexual men. The analysis revealed signifint shape differenc fac of heterosexual and homosexual men. Homosexual men showed relatively wir and shorter fac, smaller and shorter nos, and rather massive and more round jaws, rultg a mosaic of both feme and mascule featur.
However, homosexual men were rated as more mascule than heterosexual men, which may expla the misjudgment of sexual orientatn. Th, our rults showed that differenc facial morphology of homosexual and heterosexual men do not simply mirror variatn femy, and the stereotypic associatn of feme lookg men as homosexual may nfound judgments of sexual orientatn.
Detectn of sexual orientatn ("gaydar") by homosexual and heterosexual women.