Is black people too sensitive? Slightly inattentive is racial discrimination

Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:55 pm

BBS unknown space station (Thu Jan 18 19:10:10 2018, the United States East)

According to the British "Guardian" recently reported that Google Image Recognition algorithm had black ethnic pictures automatically add "gorilla" Label, however, Google's solution to this controversy turned out to be "forbidden gorillas." On Google, there is no picture Like a picture of a gorilla or monkey, even a primate itself.

Reported that this incident has been criticized as racism occurred as early as 2015, Google was then pledged to "Take immediate action " to prevent repeated mistakes.

To solve this problem, Google prevents any pictures from being marked as gorillas, chimps, monkeys, or even primates Animal itself is also spared. Wired magazine tested more than 40,000 animal pictures on Google Photos and came to the conclusion This conclusion.

Google confirmed that the inability to identify gorillas and monkeys was due to the recognition of blacks as orangutans in 2015, in order to To solve this error, Google directly from the search results removed the entry label. Google company on the "connection" miscellaneous Chi said, "the development of image tagging technology is still in its early stages, unfortunately, this technology is far from the perfect state Very well. "

Reported that unrecognized "gorilla" situation also exists in other applications Google platform, such as Google camera ( Google Lens). This is a camera software application on the mobile platform that automatically identifies the object in the image. Found that this software can not identify the picture of gorillas. But Google Assistant and Google Cloud Vision can accurately mark the spirit Long animal pictures.

Google has so far failed to develop a sustainable solution to the mistakes of the 2015 image recognition system, Machine learning techniques for line image recognition are still mature.

At the same time as Google Photo Album was launched, Yahoo's photo-sharing site Flickr also released a similar automatic image tagging can. The image recognition algorithms of these two applications have almost identical functions.

Flickr had black pictures marked as apes, which, Flickr's response is very similar to Google, Flickr obviously The term "simian" was also completely removed from the tag dictionary.