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'
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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%.
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JAWS GAY?
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"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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MEET JEWISH GAY MEN TODAY!
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. In Study 1, we ed geometric morphometrics to tt for differenc facial shape between homosexual and heterosexual men.