Google settles long after this mistake – ITavisen.no

Black people were classified as gorillas in the new Photos app.

Thursday, 2nd July 2015 – 11:58

Google recently launched a new app called Photos – an app that partly was praised by us in ITavisen.

But now it something like boasting clean ordmessig, but that is something else entirely. We were aiming for the word “rapids.”

For the new app, to be able to identify objects and people on images, has now been shown to be not as good as Google itself claims.

Almost everything correctly, but does not help much
This happened:

Jacky Alcina had uploaded a bunch of photos and looked at them in Photos app afterwards.

Many of the images were classified right. A bicycle was labeled as a bicycle, and an airplane wing was classified as an airplane.

The problem was on another picture, which was of him and his girlfriend.

Google argued here that this were gorillas. Alcina tried to upload photos again, but it happened once again.

Lie flat
It prompted him to publish the picture on Twitter, and apply directly to Google.

Not so long after Google responded Yonatan Zung and regretted what had happened:

Photo: jackyalcine

As befits let Google itself flat after emergency markings. Photo: Screenshot / Twitter

Removed tag
Now Google has removed gorilla marking entirely from its tag function – at least until the algorithm is fixed.

– We are dismayed and genuinely sorry for what has happened. We have taken immediate action to prevent this from happening again. It remains obviously a lot of work with picture label and we are now investigating how we can prevent similar errors happening in the future, says a spokesperson for Google.

Source:
The Verge