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GLAAD and HRC Denounce Study Claiming Artificial Intelligence Can Determine if You\u2019re Gay<\/b><\/p>\n

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GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign on Friday condemned a new study from two Stanford University researchers <\/a>that concluded artificial intelligence can determine if someone is gay<\/a> with startling accuracy.<\/p>\n

Read about the study HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wrote the groups in a press release:<\/p>\n

GLAAD, the world\u2019s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, and the Human Rights Campaign, the nation\u2019s largest LGBTQ civil rights organization, today called on Stanford University and responsible media outlets to expose dangerous and flawed research that could cause harm to LGBTQ people around the world. A professor affiliated with Stanford University has published a research study that resulted in several media outlets\u00a0wrongfully suggesting\u00a0<\/a>that artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to detect sexual orientation. Further, GLAAD and HRC today urged all media who either covered the study or plan to in future coverage to include the myriad flaws in the study\u2019s methodology \u2014 including that it made inaccurate assumptions, categorically left out any non-white subjects, has not been peer reviewed, and many other issues enumerated below.<\/p>\n

Said\u00a0Jim Halloran, GLAAD\u2019s Chief Digital Officer:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTechnology cannot identify someone\u2019s sexual orientation. What their technology can recognize is a pattern that found a small subset of out white gay<\/a> and lesbian<\/a> people on dating sites who look similar. Those two findings should not be conflated. This research isn\u2019t science or news, but it\u2019s a description of beauty standards on dating sites that ignores huge segments of the LGBTQ community, including people of color, transgender people, older individuals, and other LGBTQ people who don\u2019t want to post photos on dating sites.\u201d<\/p>\n

Said\u00a0HRC Director of Public Education and Research Ashland Johnson:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is dangerously bad information that will likely be taken out of context, is based on flawed assumptions, and threatens the safety and privacy of LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ people alike. Imagine for a moment the potential consequences if this flawed research were used to support a brutal regime\u2019s efforts to identify and\/or persecute people they believed to be gay<\/a>. Stanford should distance itself from such junk science rather than lending its name and credibility to research that is dangerously flawed and leaves the world \u2014 and this case, millions of people\u2019s lives \u2014 worse and less safe than before.\u201d<\/p>\n

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