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Re:Why Stanford Researchers Tried to Create a ‘Gaydar’ Machine by tyingq on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @08:48PM (#15454824)
Racism is an odd choice of words, since ML would probably determine race at a higher level of accuracy than this experiment.
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Re:Why Stanford Researchers Tried to Create a ‘Gaydar’ Machine by krallja on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @09:17PM (#15454952)
The word "racism" comes directly from the Clare Garvie quote in the article: “At its very worst, this is racism by algorithm.”

She should have used "bigotry" or "discrimination" instead.

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Re:Why Stanford Researchers Tried to Create a ‘Gaydar’ Machine by QAPereo on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @09:39PM (#15455056)
Would it? Race is so arbitrary and nonsensical that it’s tough to rationally predict. You could train it to determine things like skin color and other gross morphological features, but only the ones the trainer chooses to represent given races.
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