The viral selfie app ImageNet Roulette seemed fun – until it called me a racist slur | Technology | The Guardian

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I don’t know exactly what I was expecting the machine to tell me about myself, but I wasn’t expecting what I got: a new version of my official Guardian headshot, labeled in neon green print: “gook, slant-eye”. Below the photo, my label was helpfully defined as “a disparaging term for an Asian person (especially for North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War)”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/17/imagenet-roulette-asian-racist-slur-selfie

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09/18/2019, 10:53

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09/18/2019, 06:53