Gay face quiz
Row over AI that 'identifies gay faces'
A facial recognition experiment that claims to be able to distinguish between gay and heterosexual people has sparked a row between its creators and two primary LGBT rights groups.
The Stanford University study claims its software recognises facial features relating to sexual orientation that are not perceived by human observers.
The labor has been accused of being "dangerous" and "junk science".
But the scientists committed say these are "knee-jerk" reactions.
Details of the peer-reviewed project are due to be published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Narrow jaws
For their study, the researchers trained an algorithm using the photos of more than 14, white Americans taken from a dating website.
They used between one and five of each person's pictures and took people's sexuality as self-reported on the dating site.
The researchers said the resulting software appeared to be capable to distinguish between lgbtq+ and heterosexual
Quiz: Which Of These Guys Are Gay?
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With same-sex attracted marriage being as prominent (and contested) as it is on social/regular media I keep asking myself how it is that some people could acquire a problem with something so harmless.
Of all issues to have, to opt a non-issue makes no sense to me.
Another good interrogate to ask though with regards to this comic is what if none of these men are straight, or gay. What if they were all bisexual? Pansexual? Or even asexual?
It’s vital not to build assumptions. Sure, there can be cultural or physical indicators here and there but at the end of the day, it really doesn’t matter.
There’s this idea that you can “spot” a queer person just by looking at them, and while it’s true that some queer folk broadcast their lifestyle (just like how some wear football jerseys 24/7), many don’t.
My point is this, we hold to stop immediately assuming that men (or people in general, really) are straight by default. What good does it do
Quiz: Can You Spot The Gay Dude?
When we communicate about eating eggs in the U.S., we're almost always talking about chicken eggs. Occasionally, we might see duck eggs or quail eggs on the menu in a gourmet restaurant, and even more rarely something exotic like an emu egg. But do we ever see turkey eggs being served? Nope, never. (At least I never possess, nor has anyone I've asked about this.)
Considering how many turkeys are raised domestically in the U.S. (around million) and how many wild turkeys roam among us (around 7 million), you'd think we'd make better employ of their eggs. They are egg-laying birds, after all, and since turkey meat is so similar to chicken meat, it seems logical that turkey eggs would be similar to chicken eggs, right?
Turkey eggs are larger than chicken eggs with a thicker shell.Photo credit: Canva
Right. Basically, that's true. Turkey eggs are larger than chicken eggs and they have a stronger shell, but from what people say, they're similar to eating chicken eggs only a minute richer. Larger and richer, and yet we don't e
Test Your Gaydar
&#; -- This story was originally publish Oct. 29,
New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey surprised a lot of people last summer when he announced: "I am a gay American."
But a lot of people say they can tell right away -- just by looking at someone -- or listening to them -- whether they're gay or not. They say they have "gaydar." (The pos is a play on radar seeing what's hidden.)
Apparently McGreevey's wife doesn't contain gaydar. They are reported to have separated. And his ex-wife said she had no clue and most of his constituents didn't know. So if so many people can be fooled, does gaydar really exist?
Homosexuality is routinely hidden. Movie star Rock Hudson fooled almost everyone for years.
Lots of people were surprised when Rosie O'Donnell came out.
It all made us want to do our own test, so we persuaded 10 men, five gay and five direct, to subject themselves to several dozen people's gaydar.
The testers mingled with our subjects for about an hour, and then graded them straight, same-sex attracted, definit