Re:Cloud Vision API will not return gendered labels such as ...
by foldr on Thursday February 20, 2020 @09:24AM
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>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.
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.