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Facial Recognition Software Regularly Misgenders Trans People
Vice News ^ | Feb 19, 2019 | Matthew Gault

Posted on 02/22/2019 11:11:53 AM PST by Trump20162020

Facial recognition software is a billion dollar industry, with Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook developing systems, some of which have been sold to governments and private companies. Those systems are a nightmare for various reasons—some systems have, for example, been shown to misidentify black people in criminal databases while others have been unable to see black faces at all.

The problems can be severe for transgender and nonbinary people because most facial recognition software is programmed to sort people into two groups—male or female. Because these systems aren’t designed with transgender and gender nonconforming people in mind, something as common as catching a flight can become a complicated nightmare. It’s a problem that will only get worse as the TSA moves to a full biometric system at all airports and facial recognition technology spreads.

These biases programmed into facial recognition software means that transgender and gender nonconforming people may not be able to use facial recognition advancements that are at least nominally intended to make people’s lives easier, and, perhaps more importantly, may be unfairly targeted, discriminated against, misgendered, or otherwise misidentified by the creeping surveillance state's facial recognition software.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: amazon; apple; dnadontchangeever; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; facebook; fascistbook; genderdysphoria; goddeterminesyourdna; homosexualagenda; lgbt; markzuckerberg; matthewgault; mediawingofthednc; microsoft; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; trannies; tranny; transgender; zuckerberg
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To: Trump20162020

They have already misgendered themselves, so no harm done.


21 posted on 02/22/2019 11:40:01 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Trump20162020

That’s because the software is based upon biology, not fantasy.


22 posted on 02/22/2019 11:40:13 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Trump20162020

Maybe they should take pictures of their genitals so software can make an accurate decision


23 posted on 02/22/2019 11:42:07 AM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: Trump20162020

No, people just don’t recognize their own sex.


24 posted on 02/22/2019 11:43:05 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Trump20162020

If you look like a man, chopping off your willie isn’t going to make you look like a woman.

Is there ANYTHING these people won’t get their knickers in a wad about? For crying out loud, SOFTWARE that miscategorizes men masquerading as women? How in the world can software developers possibly write code that will say “That’s a man pretending to be a woman so let’s call IT a woman.”


25 posted on 02/22/2019 11:43:14 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Lurkinanloomin

That’s because XX and XY don’t lie.


Wait until they discover that genetic testing is also bigoted!


26 posted on 02/22/2019 11:44:25 AM PST by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

“The machine has no interest in playing in a fantasy world.”

They are going to force the machine to play, just like they are forcing us to accept perversions as normal.

After tuning, the software will probably have a high failure rate misidentifying real men and women, but our complaints will fall on deaf ears. The trannies have somehow grown a powerful lobby.


27 posted on 02/22/2019 11:45:25 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Trump20162020

DNA Testing Regularly "Misgenders" Trans People


28 posted on 02/22/2019 11:46:25 AM PST by drpix
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Rule #1 of designing software is that it’s still impossible to read people’s minds.


29 posted on 02/22/2019 11:48:06 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: T. P. Pole

“What’s the problem”

They need to adjust the arguments to the Face constructor.


30 posted on 02/22/2019 11:50:37 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: Trump20162020

That’s a feature, not a bug.


31 posted on 02/22/2019 11:53:07 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: Trump20162020
Facial Recognition Software Regularly Miscorrectly genders Trans People

fixed it

32 posted on 02/22/2019 11:54:01 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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To: Trump20162020

The story isn’t that software and technology designed to detect and distinguish males and females works, the story is the absurdity that the LGBTQWERTY community is outraged about it.

Ben Shapiro was going on about this yesterday.

A male that transitions to “female” is a male. And remains a hurt, disturbed, unhealthy individual.

Etc.


33 posted on 02/22/2019 11:54:50 AM PST by mbarker12474
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To: windsorknot

“Transgendered” persons “misgender” themselves.


34 posted on 02/22/2019 11:55:16 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: Trump20162020

No - it doesn’t.

It makes factual observations. Transgenders are the ones not living in reality.


35 posted on 02/22/2019 12:03:15 PM PST by Skywise
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To: Trump20162020

tweak the algo so once it IDs a female it applies the the TAMB (that’s a man baby) filter and presto, all fixed.


36 posted on 02/22/2019 12:08:55 PM PST by bigbob (O)
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To: Trump20162020

As a blind, albino, dwarf, black, lesbian womyn, I am very miffed that it will show me as an older, bald-headed white guy.


37 posted on 02/22/2019 12:13:44 PM PST by dynachrome (Build the wall, deport them all.)
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To: Trump20162020

What? Can’t tell Vegan Queer from Unisex Wiccan? How insensitive.


38 posted on 02/22/2019 12:29:39 PM PST by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: Trump20162020

No. They “misgender” themselves. Lunatics.


39 posted on 02/22/2019 12:36:37 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
How can this ever work? A trans female, has a man’s facial structure.

Unless they have facial feminization surgery.

Basically they take the entire face apart and grind down the brow and forehead bone areas and other horrifying things...must be a horror show to see it done. Sometimes it requires placing a thin titanium plate over the altered forehead area to add strength.

60,000 to 100,000 cost.

The results can be astonishing though.

Notice the ground down forehead in this image...they cut across the scalp at the hairline and pull the flap all the way down to the top of the nose. Then they grind the skull down and if need be add a titanium plate...ouch. They also trasplant hair to make the hairline look like a female's


40 posted on 02/22/2019 12:38:50 PM PST by Bobalu (12 diet Cokes and a fried chicken...)
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