Posted on 05/21/2015 5:59:50 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
Flickr's new auto-tagging feature is generating some pretty offensive results. The photo sharing site, which is owned by Yahoo (YHOO, Tech30), launched image-recognition software two weeks ago that automatically creates tags for photos. The purpose was to make images more searchable in the system.
Some concentration camp photos received inappropriate tags, including "sport" and "jungle gym." Flickr had also been tagging some images of people as "ape" and "animal," including a photo of a black man named William taken by photographer Corey Deshon, according to the Guardian.
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You rang?
HOWDY JACK!!
They is racessists Evehwhere!!
Does Moochelle get tagged with “wookie” or “mooch.”
They be everywhere!
the google generated tags are gone....
they turned off that “feature” so we may never know unless somebody got a screenshot
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