Google rushes to fix software that tagged photo with racial slur
By Jethro Mullen, CNN
Updated 8:10 AM ET, Thu July 2, 2015
When Jacky Alcine looked at his Google Photos app recently, he was appalled by what he saw. The facial recognition software had tagged pictures of him and a friend, both of them African-Americans, with the word “Gorillas.”
Alcine, a computer programmer in New York, called out Google about the blunder that had served up the offensive racial slur on the photos he’d uploaded.
“What kind of sample image data you collected that would result in this?” he asked in a series of angry tweets Sunday evening.
C'mon... That's fucking funny no matter who you are. lol