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Re:Neural nets more accurate than humans at detecting sexual... by erispoe on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @03:36AM (#16418745)
The fact the the authors of the paper rush for innate explanations (hormone levels in the womb...) that they have no expertise to comment on instead of much more obvious behaviors (maybe self-labelled gay and straight people upload different types of pics or take care of themselves differently, on average), is a clear violation of Occam's razor.

The "average gay face" is similar to the "average straight face" with glasses on, a better angle, and a couple of pounds less.

Re:Neural nets more accurate than humans at detecting sexual... by lxw on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @04:43AM (#16419025)
Exactly. The authors don't seem to have any basis for their explanations, and the title should really be "neural nets more accurate... on dating website images". Still this is significant, because these are the same images a government or business could potentially access for their own ends.