Incident 273: FaceApp Predicted Different Genders for Similar User Photos with Slight Variations

Description: FaceApp’s algorithm was reported by a user to have predicted different genders for two mostly identical facial photos with only a slight difference in eyebrow thickness.

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Alleged: FaceApp developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed FaceApp non-binary presenting users , FaceApp transgender users and FaceApp users.

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Incident ID

273

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Incident Date

2020-12-24

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Khoa Lam

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Tweet: @ErinInTheMorn

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twitter.com · 2020

I’d like to talk a little bit about algorithms, dysphoria, and dysmorphia.

I’ve struggled with algorithms. I’ll often take a picture and run it through FaceApp to get gendered.

I recently noticed that when my eyebrows are thin, it says I am…

Variants

A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.