New AI can guess whether you're gay or straight from a photograph - Sensationalist Headlines

[QUOTE=The Guardian]Artificial intelligence can accurately guess whether people are gay or straight based on photos of their faces, according to new research suggesting that machines can have significantly better “gaydar” than humans. The [URL="https://osf.io/zn79k/"]study[/URL] from Stanford University – which found that a computer algorithm could correctly distinguish between gay and straight men 81% of the time, and 74% for women – has raised questions about the biological origins of sexual orientation, the ethics of facial-detection technology and the potential for this kind of software to violate people’s privacy or be abused for anti-LGBT purposes. The machine intelligence tested in the research, which was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and first reported in the [URL="https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21728614-machines-read-faces-are-coming-advances-ai-are-used-spot-signs?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/advancesinaiareusedtospotsignsofsexuality"]Economist[/URL], was based on a sample of more than 35,000 facial images that men and women publicly posted on a US dating website. The researchers, Michal Kosinski and Yilun Wang, extracted features from the images using “deep neural networks”, meaning a sophisticated mathematical system that learns to analyze visuals based on a large dataset. The research found that gay men and women tended to have “gender-atypical” features, expressions and “grooming styles”, essentially meaning gay men appeared more feminine and vice versa. The data also identified certain trends, including that gay men had narrower jaws, longer noses and larger foreheads than straight men, and that gay women had larger jaws and smaller foreheads compared to straight women. Human judges performed much worse than the algorithm, accurately identifying orientation only 61% of the time for men and 54% for women. When the software reviewed five images per person, it was even more successful – 91% of the time with men and 83% with women. Broadly, that means “faces contain much more information about sexual orientation than can be perceived and interpreted by the human brain”, the authors wrote. The paper suggested that the findings provide “strong support” for the theory that sexual orientation stems from exposure to certain hormones before birth, meaning [URL="https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2015/jul/24/gay-genes-science-is-on-the-right-track-were-born-this-way-lets-deal-with-it"]people are born gay[/URL] and being queer is not a choice. The machine’s lower success rate for women also could support the notion that female sexual orientation is more fluid. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=The Economist] The researchers’ program, details of which are soon to be published in the [I]Journal of Personality and Social Psychology[/I][I],[/I] relied on 130,741 images of 36,630 men and 170,360 images of 38,593 women downloaded from a popular American dating website, which makes its profiles public. Basic facial-detection technology was used to select all images which showed a single face of sufficient size and clarity to subject to analysis. This left 35,326 pictures of 14,776 people, with gay and straight, male and female, all represented evenly. (...) Dr Kosinski and Mr Wang offer a possible explanation for their model’s performance. As fetuses develop in the womb, they are exposed to various levels of hormones, in particular testosterone. These are known to play a role in developing facial structures, and may similarly be involved in determining sexuality. The researchers suggest their system can pick up subtle signals of the latter from the former. Using other techniques, the program was found to pay most attention to the nose, eyes, eyebrows, cheeks, hairline and chin for determining male sexuality; the nose, mouth corners, hair and neckline were more important for women. The study has limitations. Firstly, images from a dating site are likely to be particularly revealing of sexual orientation. The 91% accuracy rate only applies when one of the two men whose images are shown is known to be gay. Outside the lab the accuracy rate would be much lower. To demonstrate this weakness, the researchers selected 1,000 men at random with at least five photographs, but in a ratio of gay to straight that more accurately reflects the real world; approximately seven in every 100. When asked to select the 100 males most likely to be gay, only 47 of those chosen by the system actually were, meaning that the system ranked some straight men as more likely to be gay than men who actually are. However, when asked to pick out the ten faces it was most confident about, nine of the chosen were in fact gay. If the goal is to pick a small number of people who are very likely to be gay out of a large group, the system appears able to do so. The point is not that Dr Kosinski and Mr Wang have created software which can reliably determine gay from straight. That was not their goal. Rather, they have demonstrated that such software is possible. [/QUOTE] More details in the sources (Same as those found in the previous links): [URL="https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21728614-machines-read-faces-are-coming-advances-ai-are-used-spot-signs?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/advancesinaiareusedtospotsignsofsexuality"]The Economist[/URL] [URL="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/07/new-artificial-intelligence-can-tell-whether-youre-gay-or-straight-from-a-photograph"]The Guardian [/URL][URL="https://osf.io/zn79k/"] Original Paper [/URL] For further reading: [URL="https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21728617-life-age-facial-recognition-what-machines-can-tell-your-face"]This week's header of the Economist[/URL] is on machine facial recognition. Also not sure if this deserves a thread of its own: [URL="https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21728613-facial-technology-makes-another-advance-researchers-produce-images-peoples?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/researchersproduceimagesofpeoplesfacesfromtheirgenomes"]Researchers produce images of people’s faces from their genomes[/URL]

[quote]The study has limitations. Outside the lab the accuracy rate would be much lower.[/quote] You don't say.

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Does being bi throw the AI of track?

Using this technology, can we finally find out if traps are gay or not?

What if you identify as a attack helicopter [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Memeshit" - Big Dumb American))[/highlight]

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;52660019]What if you identify as a attack helicopter[/QUOTE] then you're just a gay helicopter

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;52660019]What if you identify as a attack helicopter[/QUOTE] Gay for having two men inside you

[quote]The researchers’ program, details of which are soon to be published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, relied on 130,741 images of 36,630 men and 170,360 images of 38,593 women downloaded from a popular American dating website, which makes its profiles public. Basic facial-detection technology was used to select all images which showed a single face of sufficient size and clarity to subject to analysis. This left 35,326 pictures of 14,776 people, with gay and straight, male and female, all represented evenly.[/quote] It might be possible to explain this as people on dating websites doing different things in their profile picture based on sexuality rather than their looks.

[QUOTE=The bird Man;52660037]Gay for having two men inside you[/QUOTE] Are you implying that women can't be helicopter pilots? :privilege:

Anyone can guess if you're gay or straight. A penny can "guess" if you call heads or tails on a particular person being queer or not.

[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;52660114]Anyone can guess if you're gay or straight. A penny can "guess" if you call heads or tails on a particular person being queer or not.[/QUOTE] I don't understand what point you're trying to make here. The point of the AI was that it in the studies it could correctly guess someones sexual orientation better than a human, not that it could correctly guess it at all.

[QUOTE=Pie_Tony;52660014]Using this technology, can we finally find out if traps are gay or not?[/QUOTE] Traps are not gay. I will promptly give you an actual reason why If you kiss a woman, you will be kissing a mouth that most likely kissed a lot of guys, that's VERY gay. If you kiss a guy, that mouth would most likely have been kissed only by girls So that's not gay at all you see? Trust me. [editline]8th September 2017[/editline] Not valid if you're a combat helicopter

I don't think it'd be very accurate outside of controlled conditions. Sexual Orientation has little to do with facial structures I believe. Maybe LGBT tend to style their hair a certain way which the AI picks up on. (It does say it takes hair into account) I'm very curious if someone can build an AI which determines political beliefs just by looking at someone. It'd be just as interesting.

I have been masturbating to gay porn. what if it detects that I am actually straight all this time?

[QUOTE=download;52660061]It might be possible to explain this as people on dating websites doing different things in their profile picture based on sexuality rather than their looks.[/QUOTE] Yeah, the images being from a dating website make this seem subject to a bit of fuckery - I'd find the results a lot more impressive if they were, say, ID photos, or neutral photos taken by someone on the research team.

[QUOTE=tomatmann;52660294]I have been masturbating to gay porn. what if it detects that I am actually straight all this time?[/QUOTE] You're going to have some very awkward submissions to the "Why are you cancelling your service with us?" questionnaire when you dump all your gay porn subscriptions. "Why are you cancelling your service with us? > Can't afford it anymore. > Not interested anymore. > Dissatisfied with the content. > Other: Apparently I've actually been straight this whole time"

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[QUOTE=Lazore;52660003]Does being bi throw the AI of track?[/QUOTE] Or even better, if you're Pansexual or Asexual?

So how long until some crackpot dictatorship or oligarch (Russian) uses this to more efficiently oppress its citizens?

[QUOTE=Omali;52660560]So how long until some crackpot dictatorship or oligarch (Russian) uses this to more efficiently oppress its citizens?[/QUOTE] I would probably laugh myself straight into the 7th circle of hell if I ever heard of a dictatorship actually using AI to determine who's gay enough to be thrown into the work camp and who isn't.

[QUOTE=Bertie;52660600]I would probably laugh myself straight into the 7th circle of hell if I ever heard of a dictatorship actually using AI to determine who's gay enough to be thrown into the work camp and who isn't.[/QUOTE] "Putin says the nation that leads in AI ‘will be the ruler of the world’" [url]https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/4/16251226/russia-ai-putin-rule-the-world[/url] 🤔

It'd be cool to see how well this performs on a new test set. "Among men, the classification accuracy equaled AUC = .81 when provided with one image per person. This means that in 81% of randomly selected pairs—composed of one gay and one heterosexual man—gay men were correctly ranked as more likely to be gay.The accuracy grew significantly with the number of images available per person, reaching 91%for five images." Getting AUC of .91 is really really really good. That's not too far off from a perfect classifier, but while training their net, they equally sampled from gay and straight men. I'm curious how much it would suffer on a sample from a more realistically distributed set.

[QUOTE=Andre Gomes;52660256]Traps are not gay. I will promptly give you an actual reason why If you kiss a woman, you will be kissing a mouth that most likely kissed a lot of guys, that's VERY gay. If you kiss a guy, that mouth would most likely have been kissed only by girls So that's not gay at all you see? Trust me. [editline]8th September 2017[/editline] Not valid if you're a combat helicopter[/QUOTE] There are better ways to retell memes that have circulated the corners of the web. For example, don't.

I bet Russia would be very interested in this tech.

[QUOTE=The bird Man;52660037]Gay for having two men inside you[/QUOTE] Hey, I recall cases where Apache pilots have been female. Some swing both ways.

I can also guess if you are gay with a simple question: Do you own a tractor?

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I'm afraid this kind of tech can be used by homophobic pieces of shit in countries with anti LGBT laws as a tool to find people hiding their orientation and oppress them. It's not accurate but I don't think they would care.

[QUOTE=Bertie;52660600]I would probably laugh myself straight into the 7th circle of hell if I ever heard of a dictatorship actually using AI to determine who's gay enough to be thrown into the work camp and who isn't.[/QUOTE] Trump may be around 4 more years judging by how incompetent the DNC's comeback strategy is.