That’s a little bit racist: Google Photos inadvertently labels people as “gorillas”
Google Photos was a surprising star of the show at Google I/O 2015 with its new recognition feature being the most impressive of the lot. While it sounded almost too good to be true, it turns out it still has a few kinks in it, which developer Jacky Alcine found out it unfortunate fashion. While going through his collection of photos, the African-American Alcine found that he and a female friend had been labelled as “gorillas” by the recognition feature, and vented his dismay on Twitter:
And it’s only photos I have with her it’s doing this with (results truncated b/c personal): pic.twitter.com/h7MTXd3wgo
— diri noir avec banan (@jackyalcine) June 29, 2015
Unsurprisingly, Google‘s Chief Social Architect Yonatan Zunger was on the case quickly and understandably apologetic: “Holy [expletive]. G+ CA here. No, this is not how you determine someone’s target market. This is 100 percent not okay.” Zunger then worked with Alcine to investigate an issue so that a fix could be rolled out to Photos as soon as possible. Ironically, Zunger also divulged that the Photos app had a similar problem early in development when it would label normal humans as “dogs”. In an official statement given to Ars Technica, Google said:
“We’re appalled and genuinely sorry that this happened. We are taking immediate action to prevent this type of result from appearing. There is still clearly a lot of work to do with automatic image labeling, and we’re looking at how we can prevent these types of mistakes from happening in the future.”
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Source: Ars Technica via BGR
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