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AI Can Detect Sexual Orientation Based On Person's Photo (cnbc.com)
ugen shares a report from CNBC: Artificial Intelligence (AI) can now accurately identify a person's sexual orientation by analyzing photos of their face, according to new research. The Stanford University study, which is set to be published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and was first reported in The Economist, found that machines had a far superior "gaydar" when compared to humans. Slashdot reader randomlygeneratename adds: Researchers built classifiers trained on photos from dating websites to predict the sexual orientation of users. The best classifier used logistic regression over features extracted from a VGG-Face conv-net. The latter was done to prevent overfitting to background, non-facial information. Classical facial feature extraction also worked with a slight drop in accuracy. From multiple photos, they achieved an accuracy of 91% for men and 83% for women (and 81% / 71% for a single photo). Humans were only able to get 61% and 54%, respectively. One caveat is the paper mentions it only used Caucasian faces. The paper went on to discuss how this capability can be an invasion of privacy, and conjectured that other types of personal information might be detectable from photos. The source paper can be found here.
They measured the ability to determine which is gay and which is straight among a pair of people (one of each) based on their dating profile pics.
You did not misread the summery though: the summery is simply wrong, and the article is misleading. The paper makes it clear though.
You've lived in some very unrepresentative neighborhoods if you think 12.5% of the human population is gay. Outside of TV shows and movies, mayyybe 4% of the real world population is gay or bisexual.
No, it's 10%. Trust me. I'm gay. You just think otherwise because there are a lot of closeted people. It might be higher than 10% really. I'm not exactly in a homo-friendly family and I know there are at least 3 in 30 on my moms side. My significant other would be 2 in maybe 20 that we know of. And his family is VERY homophobic and his mom refuses to talk to him even now that he's out so who knows how many other people in the family might just be keeping their lifestyle a secret. And most homosexuals are not flaming homosexuals so you'd never even know it. I am out and nobody even knows it. None of my neighbours would. I've thought of flying a rainbow flag- but we're just not that type. However I'm a fairly important person and co-host a radio show. Every time I mention my partner in passing on the show another co-host clarifies who I am talking about (ie my partner). It's fine with me cause I'm out, but the point is it's just weird to introduce yourself or your significant other based on their sexuality. Do you go around introducing yourself as straight? Probably not. Well, neither do I (as gay). However I might introduce my partner as my significant other or as my partner. Though the later can get confusing because I'm in business for myself. My significant other had to get a license once and for whatever reason he had to bring me up. Well, he said significant other, and even THAT didn't work. It just went right over the state employees head. I finally kissed him on the lips. I think telling someone twice is enough. If they don't get the hint so be it. My partner is the shy type and was not at all happy. It was quite the scene. Also probably didn't help that I accused her of partaking in a system of violence. Forcing someone to get a permission slip or face violence, kidnapping, and theft that is. You have a right to travel and no matter what the means of the day are. "Safety" is never an acceptable excuse to violate people's freedoms or rights.
Sexual orientation is not orientation on which hole you stick your dick in. It's about who you find attractive. Contrary to the stereotypes there are quite a large number of gay men wo don't like anal sex and never do it. There are also hetero couples who do have anal sex. Sexual techniques and sexual orieantation are different things.
Islamophobia - the irrational fear of islam. Except there's nothing irrational about fearing a group that is bombing you, running you over, and has sworn to destroy you because of your sinful western way of life.
The thing is this won't be very useful for that kind of thing - far too many false positives.
It's estimated that about 5% of the population is gay. With this thing only having an 81% accuracy rate, this means there will be many more false positives than actual gay people - if you took a room with 100 people in, it would misidentify approximately 19 of the people as the sexual orientation they are not - meaning there would be roughly three times as many people mis-identified as gay than actual gay people. In other words, it's not actually very useful.
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What is the need to distinguish gay from straight?
It's important if you are looking for a mate.