The Guardian reports there is an algorithm that can guess a person’s sexuality with higher accuracy than humans. Through the research, the AI determined “gender-atypical” features and expressions such as men appearing more “feminine” identified a person’s sexual orientation. Data was obtained from a sample of more than 35,000 facial images of both sexes from US dating sites.



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Human judges performed much worse than the algorithm, accurately identifying orientation only 61% of the time for men and 54% for women. When the software reviewed five images per person, it was even more successful – 91% of the time with men and 83% with women. Broadly, that means “faces contain much more information about sexual orientation than can be perceived and interpreted by the human brain”, the authors wrote.

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