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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.
The entire PNW is entirely too white, especially the coastal "liberal" (actually leftist) areas. They need refugees, hundreds of thousands of them straight from Somalia and Syria, to correct this problem.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
stereotypes are used because they actually work.
Gays are less than 2% of the population. They have an outsized influence because they are over-represented on the performing arts and Hollywood, and they provide a useful cudgel for the the cultural left to attack Christianity. Muslims also provide a cudgel to attack traditional Christianity (logically inconsistent with using gays for the same purpose but logic doesn't count for much in culture wars), and exercise a heckler's veto over the public debate. So they also, despite being less than 2% of the population in the US, have outsized influence.
"The long-established wisdom has it that 10% of the American public is gay or lesbian. But when asked, the majority of Americans estimate that almost 25% of their fellow citizens are homosexual to one extent or another."
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
It might have the opposite effect. It is easy to hate a faceless "other". It is harder to be homophobic when you know your friends and relatives are gay.
One of the reasons that gay acceptance happened so fast is positive feedback. As gays felt more comfortable "coming out", more people realized that "normal" people they knew were gay, leading to even wider acceptance.
That's funny, because I've known a few gay people. For at least half of them, it's obvious that there's something deeply wrong with them, and it's tied into their homosexuality (ie, the behavior is either a cause of the obvious dysfunction or an expression of it).
So in terms of 'homophobia', do I irrationally fear any of them? No. Do I hate any of them? No. But it's obvious at least half of them are screwed up. And that leads me to the conclusion that it's best not to encourage or approve of homosexual conduct, because it's self-destructive behavior. The adverse health consequences statistically attached to homosexuality bear this out.