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Re:Cloud Vision API will not return gendered labels such as ... by s3krit on Thursday February 20, 2020 @11:39AM (#22376292)
>effectively denies my biological masculinity

How does it do that? All they are doing is no longer using perceived masculinity as a metric for determining whether you might be male or female.

>I'll not bother making a fuss

And yet here we are

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Re:Cloud Vision API will not return gendered labels such as ... by growlist on Friday February 21, 2020 @05:34AM (#22382197)
A post on HN is a bit different to the mind-melting full-spectrum 'there's no such thing as men and women guyz!' etc. subversion efforts afoot.
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Re:Cloud Vision API will not return gendered labels such as ... by GreenJelloShot on Thursday February 20, 2020 @01:47PM (#22377495)
> And yet here we are

A two sentence post on HN is "making a fuss"???

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Re:Cloud Vision API will not return gendered labels such as ... by foldr on Thursday February 20, 2020 @09:24AM (#22375247)
>In a way I find it offensive that this service effectively denies my biological masculinity

All it's saying is that it won't make gender classifications based on perceived masculinity/femininity.

Just because you can automatically classify certain features to some degree of accuracy doesn't mean you should. A company like Google also has an ethical obligation to think about how the technology will be used.

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