Google Apologizes For Identifying Blacks As Gorillas
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A black programmer wasn’t happy to find pictures of himself so-labeled.
Jacky Alciné had searched on Google’s Photos app for pictures of him and a friend, who is also black, and took a screenshot that showed the shocking mistake…
Google engineer Yontan Zunger responded swiftly saying “This is 100% Not OK,” but the first round of fixes still didn’t take.
This took place on Google’s new Photos app, which is supposed to promise “machine-learning smarts to recognize people, places and events.”
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D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.