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Google apologises for Photos app's racist blunder
BBC Online ^
| 7/1/2015
| BBC Technology
Posted on 07/02/2015 2:08:41 AM PDT by W.
Google says it is "appalled" that its new Photos app mistakenly labelled a black couple as being "gorillas".
Its product automatically tags uploaded pictures using its own artificial intelligence software.
The error was brought to its attention by a New York-based software developer who was one of the people pictured in the photos involved.
Google was later criticised on social media because of the label's racist connotations.
"This is 100% not OK," acknowledged Google executive Yonatan Zunger after being contacted by Jacky Alcine via Twitter.
"[It was] high on my list of bugs you 'never' want to see happen."
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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Humor; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: check; error; google; oops
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To: W.
The unforgiveable sin - even if it’s committed by program code. Will sharpton do a war dance at Google HQ? Will he demand reparations?
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07/02/2015 5:51:12 AM PDT
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I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
To: W.
Something in those algorithms I suppose... ;)
To: bolobaby
Algorithms don’t lie. I guess that there is truth in mathematics.
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posted on
07/02/2015 6:07:00 AM PDT
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Cowboy Bob
(Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
To: deoetdoctrinae
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posted on
07/02/2015 6:12:42 AM PDT
by
sauropod
(I am His and He is mine.)
To: Shimmer1
Him, not so much... the girl in the foreground sure would fool most heuristic algorithms, though.
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07/02/2015 6:14:02 AM PDT
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MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: bolobaby
Where’s my cricket?
Aren’t you gonna feed me my cricket?
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posted on
07/02/2015 6:16:19 AM PDT
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sauropod
(I am His and He is mine.)
To: onyx
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posted on
07/02/2015 7:23:51 AM PDT
by
RedMDer
(May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
To: W.
Life isn't fair.
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posted on
07/02/2015 8:39:57 AM PDT
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: W.
Yeah, but was they in the mist?
To: MrB
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07/03/2015 5:38:52 AM PDT
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Shimmer1
("Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."Thomas Paine)
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