Re:Why Stanford Researchers Tried to Create a ‘Gaydar’ Machine
by Bromskloss on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @10:14PM
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> Secondly, it's not clear to me that they controlled for enough variables and only doing it on white people is strange. It could really be that gay people use better photos, who knows.
Are these two sentences meant to be related to each other, or am I misreading your comment?
Re:Why Stanford Researchers Tried to Create a ‘Gaydar’ Machine
by jolux on Thursday October 12, 2017 @02:14PM
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No that's a bit confusing. They were meant to be totally unrelated.
Re:Why Stanford Researchers Tried to Create a ‘Gaydar’ Machine
by xupybd on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @10:25PM
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So if I understand correctly the problem is not in what they attempted to do, it's that they didn't do it properly. Because they did this incorrectly the results they claim are not conclusive and given the inflammatory nature of the study they should be more careful with their claims?
Re:Why Stanford Researchers Tried to Create a ‘Gaydar’ Machine
by jolux on Thursday October 12, 2017 @02:13PM
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Basically yes. Also if the point was to show that "AI" or whatever can be used for nefarious ends I think there are better ways of doing it. I have a feeling they were looking for better results than they got.
Re:Why Stanford Researchers Tried to Create a ‘Gaydar’ Machine
by mirimir on Thursday October 12, 2017 @12:17AM
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> ... only doing it on white people is strange.
According to the article, they found few profiles of non-white homosexuals.
Re:Why Stanford Researchers Tried to Create a ‘Gaydar’ Machine
by jolux on Thursday October 12, 2017 @02:12PM
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I know what they said the reason was, it doesn't make it less strange.
Re:Why Stanford Researchers Tried to Create a ‘Gaydar’ Machine
by mirimir on Thursday October 12, 2017 @02:44PM
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It's not at all strange, for the researchers. If there's too little data, there's nothing to be done. But maybe it's strange that there are so few profiles by non-white homosexuals. It's a cultural thing, I suspect.
Re:Why Stanford Researchers Tried to Create a ‘Gaydar’ Machine
by YeGoblynQueenne on Friday October 13, 2017 @07:46AM
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Well, if you don't have enough data for the experiment you want to make, then you don't make the experiment.
Not make the experiment and then note that "btw, don't call us out on our poor data, it's not our fault, we tried our best".
Especially so if you're perfectly aware of how controversial your study may be considered.
They're claiming to be able to detect gay people but it seems like the system has to be coaxed very carefully into doing that and seems very limited. They built a purposefully inflammatory tech demo that seems to do more to betray their distance from the topic they're studying than it does bolster their reputation. At least from my perspective.