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    Rolf Degen‏ @DegenRolf 7 Mar 2019
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    Replication study confirms: Artificial Intelligence is better at detecting sexual orientation from facial images than humans. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.10739.pdf …pic.twitter.com/eQ8V8BbsZz

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      2. Angry Cat typing away‏ @cosmosPixelado 7 Mar 2019
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        What's the baseline, aka how accurate are humans in detecting sexual orientations from a picture?

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      3. Rolf Degen‏ @DegenRolf 7 Mar 2019
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        Humans are able to predict sexual orientation with modest success, achieving an accuracy measured by the Area Under the Curve (AUC) of AUC=.61 for male images and AUC=.54 for female images.

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      1. Tigerlore Damien Fox‏ @AnthonyCFox 7 Mar 2019
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        So, social constructionism shows up in AI too. Interesting. 🤔

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      1. elizabeth‏ @elizpingree 7 Mar 2019
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        This is nuts. I'm surprised that head pose isn't correlated with sexual orientation.

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        I think this probably just shows that gay people and straight people take different kinds of pictures for dating sites, which itself is probably dictated by culture. Smiles, facial expressions, eye contact, expressiveness-- all plausibly different b/t gay and straight pics.

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      1. IronHeaver‏ @IronHeaver 7 Mar 2019
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        The implication may be that the developmental factors that effect facial bone formation,most likely the fetal hormone environment?, have an impact on brain traits as well. But as always the correlation/causation question would still exist.

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      1. Son of Gumby‏ @Son_of_Gumby 7 Mar 2019
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        Soon to be an iPhone app.

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        Still at best only get it right 68% of the time... Makes you wonder if everyone who says they are gay aren't really just making it up for the money they'll earn scamming people...

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