Google drops gender labels from image recognition to reduce bias

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Google drops gender labels from image recognition to reduce bias

Every individual will now be classified as a "person" in Google Cloud's Vision API

Google will no longer identify people by gender in its image recognition AI, by removing labels such as "man" and "woman" from photos of people. Instead, every individual will now be classified as a "person,"  according to a company email seen by Business Insider.

The changes will be introduced to Google Cloud's Vision API, which developers can use to add labels to images and then classify them into predefined categories.

In an email to developers, Google cited two reasons for the changes: it's impossible to infer someone's gender by appearance, and attempting to do so could perpetuate unfair biases.

Journalist Sriram Sharma shared a screenshot of the email:

Got an email from Google saying Cloud Vision API will not return gendered labels such as 'man' and 'woman' after February 19, 2020. pic.twitter.com/9XjdgQQwNe

- Sriram Sharma (@SriramVSharma) February 20, 2020

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