Incident 115: Genderify’s AI to Predict a Person’s Gender Revealed by Free API Users to Exhibit Bias
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Some tech companies make a splash when they launch, others seem to bellyflop.
Genderify, a new service that promised to identify someone’s gender by analyzing their name, email address, or username with the help AI, looks firmly to be in th…
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Just hours after making waves and triggering a backlash on social media, Genderify — an AI-powered tool designed to identify a person’s gender by analyzing their name, username or email address — has been completely shut down.
Launched last…
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The creators of a controversial tool that attempted to use AI to predict people's gender from their internet handle or email address have shut down their service after a huge backlash.
The Genderify app launched this month, and invited peop…
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