The viral selfie app ImageNet Roulette seemed fun – until it called me a racist slur

During a strange week for Asian Americans, the app - which is part of an art project - achieved its aim by underscoring exactly what's wrong with artificial intelligence

How are you supposed to react when a robot calls you a "gook"?

At first glance, ImageNet Roulette seems like just another viral selfie app - those irresistible 21st-century magic mirrors that offer a simulacrum of insight in exchange for a photograph of your face. Want to know what you will look like in 30 years? There's an app for that. If you were a dog what breed would you be? That one went viral in 2016. What great work of art features your doppelganger? Google's Arts & Culture app dominated social media feeds in 2018 when it gave us a chance to bemoan being more Picasso than Botticelli, or vice versa.