{"id":70319,"date":"2015-07-01T09:52:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T17:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=70319"},"modified":"2015-07-01T09:53:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T17:53:32","slug":"google-photos-mislabels-2-black-americans-as-gorillas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=70319","title":{"rendered":"Google Photos Mislabels 2 Black Americans as Gorillas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/tech\/google-photos-mislabels-two-black-americans-as-122793782784.html\">Yahoo<\/a>: The image recognition software built into Google Photos is impressive. Show it a photo of the Eiffel Tower, and it will know that picture was taken in Paris. Snap an image of a dog or a tree, and it will automatically put them in a group with all your other pictures of dogs or trees. <\/p>\n<p>But the software is far from foolproof. And when it fails, it does so in a spectacular way \u2014 as when it recently processed a photo of two black friends and labeled them \u201cGorillas.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Jacky Alcine, a 21-year old programmer who lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., was checking out his Google Photos account last night when he saw that the service had automatically generated a folder titled \u201cGorillas.\u201d It contained nothing but pictures of him and a friend that he had taken in 2013. <\/p>\n<p>When alerted to the error, Google provided a solution to the problem within hours and issued an immediate mea culpa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo: The image recognition software built into Google Photos is impressive. Show it a photo of the Eiffel Tower, and it will know that picture was taken in Paris. Snap an image of a dog or a tree, and it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=70319\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29746,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apes","category-blacks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70320,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70319\/revisions\/70320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}