Where do I even begin with this one?
Google Photos has an automatic tagging feature that tags photos on the fly. Except that it was found that it tagged Black people as “gorillas”:
The company was criticized on social networks after a New York software developer questioned the efficacy of Google’s algorithm. Accused of racism, Google said that it was “appalled” by what had happened, branding it as “100% not OK”.
The kicker is that Flicker, which is also owned by Google has had a similar problem where it tagged images of concentration camps as sports venues and black people as apes. Clearly there’s a systemic problem at Google. One that needs to be fixed.
So much for “do no evil.”
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Google Apologizes For Racist Blunder With Photos
Where do I even begin with this one?
Google Photos has an automatic tagging feature that tags photos on the fly. Except that it was found that it tagged Black people as “gorillas”:
The company was criticized on social networks after a New York software developer questioned the efficacy of Google’s algorithm. Accused of racism, Google said that it was “appalled” by what had happened, branding it as “100% not OK”.
The kicker is that Flicker, which is also owned by Google has had a similar problem where it tagged images of concentration camps as sports venues and black people as apes. Clearly there’s a systemic problem at Google. One that needs to be fixed.
So much for “do no evil.”
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