Meet the professor who says facial recognition can tell if you're gay



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According to Michael Kosinki, a psychologist and badistant professor of organizational behavior at Stanford University, facial recognition software can be used to determine if a person is homobadual. Last year, Kosinki and a research badociate used a machine learning system on 35,326 photographs of dating sites and discovered that he was able to distinguish between photos of people homobadual and heterobadual with great precision.

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There was an immediate backlash when the research – nicknamed "AI gaydar" – was viewed in The Economist magazine. Two of America's largest LGBTQ organizations demanded that Stanford distance himself from what they called the "dangerous and flawed research" of his professor. Kosinski received a flood of emails, many from people who told him that they were confused about their baduality and hoped that he would have them review his algorithm.

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