Stanford’s Facial Recognition Algorithm Can Determine Sexual Orientation With Up To 91% Accuracy

By Vin Armani

New Stanford study shows that a facial recognition algorithm can correctly determine whether people are straight or gay with up to 91% accuracy when using multiple images. Vin Armani covers the implications and fallout from the findings.

The study’s description states:

We show that faces contain much more information about sexual orientation than can be perceived and interpreted by the human brain. We used deep neural networks to extract features from 35,326 facial images. These features were entered into a logistic regression aimed at classifying sexual orientation. Given a single facial image, a classifier could correctly distinguish between gay and heterosexual men in 81% of cases, and in 74% of cases for women. Human judges achieved much lower accuracy: 61% for men and 54% for women. The accuracy of the algorithm increased to 91% and 83%, respectively, given five facial images per person.

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Vin Armani is the host of The Vin Armani Show on Activist Post, author of Self Ownership, agorist entrepreneur, and co-founder of Counter Markets. Follow Vin on Twitter and subscribe on YouTube. Get the weekly podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. Vin is available for interviews at email – Vin (at) VinArmani.com.


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11 Comments on "Stanford’s Facial Recognition Algorithm Can Determine Sexual Orientation With Up To 91% Accuracy"

  1. Awesome news. All the transexual orgies will go a lot more efficiently.

  2. So…gay face is a real thing?

  3. Careful, this might piss off the LGBTQIA population which is still at less than 1% of the population. According to them, it’s not just gay or straight men and women, it’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, queer, intersexual and asexual – and probably a few new ones by now. And just who is the genius who decided creating this tech with millions of dollars would be a good idea? Good for whom? Well, we all know the answer to that. It’s yet another way they are making us pay for our own demise.

  4. Please tell me they call it Gaydar.

  5. I would have to be shown tangible proof that can be validated this method is as accurate as they say.

    We are steadily becoming an unthinking populace that repeats the mantras of so called perceived authority.

    Show me proof that will hold up in court and we will go from there.

    Until then, this is sensationalism to sell readers a story.

  6. Is the author looking for qualifying dates?

  7. And we need to know this WHY?

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