Google apoloziges for racist software

[Italian (x)lurker]

Google apologises for Photos app's racist blunder - BBC News

how is it possible??

[PedroMartinez]

It's possible because they probably just thought it was best to apologize.

[Labonte18]

Software isn't racist.

the programmers could be.. Which I'd find unlikely since it's just this woman that it seems to be happening to.

Most likely.. It's just metrics.. Perhaps, the highest match it could find was with Gorillas, and it returned that. But the match percentage was very low, even though it was the highest 'matching'.. In which case, it probably should have been programmed to return "I don't know" rather than taking its best guess.

[keepingquiet]

I wonder if this thread will be deleted since my thread on the exact same topic yesterday. People were being very civil. It wasn't until i commented on how civil people were being that the thread was deleted after being up for several days.