Facial Recognition Software Regularly Misgenders Trans People

Vice News ^ | Feb 19, 2019 | Matthew Gault

[Ezekiel]

After tuning, the software will probably have a high failure rate misidentifying real men and women...

Excellent. No need for anyone to shoot these things. The snoopy spy technology will be rendered powerless by its own operators who are determined to fix it.

*trump*

[dfwgator]

[dynachrome]

It still needs to shave or take off the dress.

[djpg]

Light waves are bigoted!

[Da Coyote]

The software is fine, obviously.
It’s the sickos that have the problems.
Yes, sickos.
We’re talking 51 cards short of a full deck.
A burger and fries short of a happy meal.
Face up to it, transies - you’ve got problems.
And it’s up to you to get your head (whatever little there is in it) straight.
Nope, no one wants to pick on you. They do not hate you. They just want you to get a room and leave the rest of us the fffff alone.
Captain Obvious out.

[Lockbox]

The computer software uses the Advanced Body Proportions of Human Anatomy Fundamentals which comes back as Michael every time.

[BuffaloJack]

It might not be good a gender identification, but it can identify who you are, and that’s its purpose.

[Boogieman]

By “misgenders”, the author means “correctly deduces their biological sex”.

[rockrr]

“No, you stupid computer - I’m telling you that 2+2=5!”

[Boogieman]

$100,000 to go from a decent looking man to a homely woman... what a bargain!

[NetAddicted]

I haven’t read whole article, but it starts out stupidly. Yeah, older software followed the scientific facts about sex. I have yet to read any form asking me for my gender. Their complaints about not recognizing “gender” will follow the route of worries about the shutdown of computer systems on January 1, 2000.

[upchuck]

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.

Solution: get a DNA test and live with the results, knowing that God determined your gender at conception and you can't change it.

[x]

If gender is all in the mind, there's no way that external characteristics could reveal what people only think.

But this will mean lawsuits, and I really wish the media wouldn't abet such claims.

Unfortunately, you can't expect the media to behave responsibly.

[TalBlack]

These biases programmed into facial recognition software ..”

They’re not biases, they’re REALITY!

[upchuck]

Interesting, thanks.

And after all that pain and expense, their sex is still the same. I doesn’t change.

[Kakaze]

Good Lord, another “reason” for the terminally offended to sue.
Maybe A.I. really is already smarter than us.

[Drew68]

It's true.

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[Sergio]

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