Sep 7, 2017Single source
Researchers' Homosexual-Men Detection Model Denounced as a Threat to LGBTQ People's Safety and Privacy
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Researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Business developed a model that determined, on a binary scale, whether someone was homosexual using only his facial image, which advocacy groups such as GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign denounced as flawed science and threatening to LGBTQ folks.
What this means for youResearch like this shows that a face photo can be used to guess sensitive traits such as sexual orientation, so people should ask before allowing face-analysis tools to scan their images.
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- AI Incident Databasehttps://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/167
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