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According to Michael Kosinki, psychologist and assistant professor of organizational behavior at Stanford University, facial-recognition software can be used to determine whether someone is gay. Last year, Kosinki and a research associate used a machine-learning system on 35,326 photographs from dating websites and found that it was able to distinguish between photos of gay and straight people with a high degree of accuracy.
There was an immediate backlash when the research – dubbed “AI gaydar” – was previewed in the Economist magazine. Two of America’s most prominent LGBTQ organizations demanded that Stanford distance itself from what they called its professor’s “dangerous and flawed research”. Kosinski received a deluge of emails, many from people who told him they were confused about their sexuality and hoped he would run their photo through his algorithm.
There was an immediate backlash when the research – dubbed “AI gaydar” – was previewed in the Economist magazine. Two of America’s most prominent LGBTQ organizations demanded that Stanford distance itself from what they called its professor’s “dangerous and flawed research”. Kosinski received a deluge of emails, many from people who told him they were confused about their sexuality and hoped he would run their photo through his algorithm.