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Stanford University researchers have used software in an attempt to determine sexual orientation from photos:
"Deep neural networks are more accurate than humans at detecting sexual orientation from facial images" is the title of an article by Stanford University's Michal Kosinski and Yilun Wang, to be published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The abstract:
We show that faces contain much more information about sexual orientation than can be perceived and interpreted by the human brain. We used deep neural networks to extract features from 35,326 facial images. These features were entered into a logistic regression aimed at classifying sexual orientation. Given a single facial image, a classifier could correctly distinguish between gay and heterosexual men in 81% of cases, and in 74% of cases for women. Human judges achieved much lower accuracy: 61% for men and 54% for women. The accuracy of the algorithm increased to 91% and 83%, respectively, given five facial images per person. Facial features employed by the classifier included both fixed (e.g., nose shape) and transient facial features (e.g., grooming style).
Consistent with the prenatal hormone theory of sexual orientation, gay men and women tended to have gender-atypical facial morphology, expression, and grooming styles. Prediction models aimed at gender alone allowed for detecting gay males with 57% accuracy and gay females with 58% accuracy. Those findings advance our understanding of the origins of sexual orientation and the limits of human perception. Additionally, given that companies and governments are increasingly using computer vision algorithms to detect people's intimate traits, our findings expose a threat to the privacy and safety of gay men and women.
The images and the sexual orientation information were drawn from an online dating site. Note that the study was limited to white people from the United States, because of the relative lack of images of nonwhite gays and lesbians on the site.
Also at TechCrunch, The Advocate, and The Guardian.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday September 11 2017, @06:47PM (20 children)
This is the end. This system will become ubiquitous very quickly, and as soon as it gets into the hands of a fascist government--and make no mistake, the US is on the way to fascism--that's it. It's over.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 11 2017, @07:31PM (7 children)
You mean corporatism, suppression of freedoms and promotion of the concept of total war? Hate to break this to you but Clinton lost an election last year on that platform.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday September 11 2017, @08:29PM (5 children)
And you think the GOP isn't the same way? Idiot. Trump is an outlier, but he's also incompetent and near-powerless. The establishment will eat him alive.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Monday September 11 2017, @09:07PM
I'm OK with that. But are they really so sure they won't be eaten alive in return?
I think that doubt is the only thing that has prevented them from impeaching him outright already. Between the Democratic and Republican wings of the UniParty they certainly have the votes to do it. I don't think they even have to prove anything "beyond a shadow of a doubt," the way you do in a court of law. They only have to have enough votes.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @03:21AM (3 children)
And what would be the reaction to impeachment of the 'deplorable' 49% of voters who put him in office?
Statistically, they are much more likely to be straight-talking, straight-shooting, anti-government types than the weak lefty 'libruls' who want Trump gone.
Electing Trump was a great big FUCK YOU to the system that was continually screwing them. Take away that last hope and you might not like the result.
Also, objectively what has Trump done that is so bad?
He says things that piss off foreigners. = Ha, good for him, them furriners need telling to fuck off. #MAGA.
He tweets a lot of crap. = So what, who's it hurting? It makes them lefties scream, and thats funny.
He killed TPP and is putting US interests ahead of the rest of the world. = FUCK YEAH! #MAGA #MAGA #TRUMP-RULES
(Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 12 2017, @10:03AM (2 children)
Okay, Timmy, that's enough internet for you today. Go sit in the corner and think about what you've done.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @03:38PM (1 child)
My name is not Timmy, and failure to understand the truths buried beneath the funny in that post is what put Trump in office. If the left (really, the slightly less right) keep failing to understand, then Trump will probably win a second term.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @03:44PM
Pull your head out of the sand. Killing TPP was the only positive thing Trump has done, everything else has been a train wreck on the way to Fascitown.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:09AM
True enough, but didn't you notice they had the other guy whipped and in his place within weeks?
The elected officials that we think "run the country" are just public faces with little to no influence or power, and that's becoming increasingly difficult for even the dullest and least informed voters to miss.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by lx on Monday September 11 2017, @09:01PM (7 children)
Nothing is over. No system of government lasts forever. Eventually every empire will fall. Remember this.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday September 11 2017, @09:26PM (2 children)
Corruption is such a pervasive cause. Our next iteration of democracy needs a much more robust system of error correction/corruption elimination.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by FatPhil on Monday September 11 2017, @09:30PM (1 child)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @03:46PM
But but tyranny of the majority!!
lawl
It is always possible for society to go off the rails, make really bad decisions. I for one would be much more comfortable with a more democratic process than the shitshow we have now in the US.
(Score: 2) by unauthorized on Tuesday September 12 2017, @03:04AM (3 children)
This reminds me of the common saying "all that goes up must go down". People who say that should be launched into an escape trajectory from the solar system.
(Score: 1) by Arik on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:06AM (2 children)
Why? So they can die before they come down? How would that possibly make anyone better off?
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by Zinho on Tuesday September 12 2017, @04:07PM (1 child)
You seem to misunderstand the meaning of "escape trajectory". If something is going fast enough [wikipedia.org] in the right direction, then it will never come down. Ever. If you add up the amount of energy it takes to go from the surface of the earth to the edge of the observable universe it is a finite number, and not even especially large. It's easy once you have that energy number to use the kinetic energy equation KE=(m*v^2)/2 to find out how fast you'd have to go to never come down. Wikipedia even has a list! [wikipedia.org]
Back to the point, I believe the post you're replying to intended that they learn physics properly before they use it as an analogy for anything affecting society at large. Suggesting that they take a one-way trip out of the solar system as an object lesson is (hopefully) hyperbole.
"Space Exploration is not endless circles in low earth orbit." -Buzz Aldrin
(Score: 3, Touché) by deimtee on Tuesday September 12 2017, @06:53PM
To be pedantically fair, an escape trajectory does mean that they will die before they come down.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 11 2017, @09:06PM (3 children)
The US is already fascist, however there is still some lip service being paid to the concept of freedom. I think you mean that the people are on the way to getting so beaten down they stop pushing for freedom.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday September 11 2017, @09:20PM
I think somebody on SN pointed out the other day that the last couple of decades have shown us how little weight our constitutional rights actually have, given how the 4th Amendment was so easily jettisoned when it got in the way of what the Establishment wanted to do.
Alas, it seems freedom is not something that can be won, but rather is something you have to keep winning.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Arik on Monday September 11 2017, @09:38PM (1 child)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 12 2017, @03:47PM
Have you noticed yet, what a surprisingly large proportion of them is progressive?
The big liberal/progressive split has been a long time coming. As a child of *cough*many decades past*cough* it's positively surreal to see how Rs are better at supporting civil liberties (however faintly and unreliably) than the Ds.