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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.
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You go, Google. Go cut that check...
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posted on
07/02/2015 2:08:41 AM PDT
by
W.
To: W.
I’m appalled that the people actually resemble gorillas. Reality is racism!!!!!
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posted on
07/02/2015 2:19:29 AM PDT
by
Shimmer1
(The Sting of a Reproach is the Truth of it. Ben Franklin)
To: W.
What if she identifies as a gorilla? Is she a gorilla then? I hear this guy is a lizard...
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posted on
07/02/2015 2:20:56 AM PDT
by
bolobaby
To: Shimmer1
These people do not look like gorillas at all. It is those damn gorillas who look like them!
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posted on
07/02/2015 2:23:09 AM PDT
by
cartan
To: W.; RedMDer; musicman; The Cajun; deoetdoctrinae
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posted on
07/02/2015 2:24:53 AM PDT
by
onyx
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To: W.
Awkward. Just when whites had them convinced that we don’t think of them that way.
Does arab Google label Jews as ‘apes’?
To: W.
Technology can’t be racist...so it must be the racist employees of Google who programmed the app. Goes to show that deep down, liberals are the most racist.
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posted on
07/02/2015 2:37:04 AM PDT
by
Cowboy Bob
(Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
To: W.
They should post a picture of Chewbacca.
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posted on
07/02/2015 2:49:23 AM PDT
by
immadashell
(The inmates are running the asylum.)
To: W.; al baby; Albion Wilde; Allegra; BufordP; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; JoeProBono; JRios1968; ..
DANG!
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posted on
07/02/2015 2:54:26 AM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Cancer-free since 1988! US out of UN! UN out of US!)
To: Cowboy Bob
Actually, that is probably incorrect. My guess is that they fed a learning algorithm with no data thousands upon thousands of tagged photos and let the algorithm identify the qualities of the photos with similar tags. So, no one consciously said, “These are the qualities of gorillas.” Instead, there was just a bunch of photos with gorillas in them that also had the associated keyword “gorilla” and the algorithm saw the same qualities in this photo.
That’s how the algorithm is able to identify the window shot as “airplane” even though it is a fractional view of a plane.
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posted on
07/02/2015 2:57:24 AM PDT
by
bolobaby
To: W.
Ban the google flag! Ban the website from all government computers!
To: W.
Right at this minute Al Sharpton is yelling, “JACKPOT!!!!”
To: bolobaby
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posted on
07/02/2015 3:45:25 AM PDT
by
sauropod
(I am His and He is mine.)
To: W.
To: W.
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posted on
07/02/2015 3:57:17 AM PDT
by
ew63
To: W.
Found by a software developer? Seems questionable.
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posted on
07/02/2015 4:09:22 AM PDT
by
Raycpa
To: W.
LOL!
Racist Google......go get em Al.
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posted on
07/02/2015 4:20:30 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
To: immadashell
"They should post a picture of Chewbacca."
First Lady
To: sauropod
Bigot! Now I need to personally destroy you for your bigotry. Where do you work? I need to call up and get you fired...
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posted on
07/02/2015 5:29:12 AM PDT
by
bolobaby
Looks like someone at Google needs to do a little fence mending.
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posted on
07/02/2015 5:40:40 AM PDT
by
deoetdoctrinae
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