Flickr faces complaints over 'offensive' auto-tagging for photos
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#9CKG)
Auto-tagging system slaps 'animal' and 'ape' labels on images of black people, and tags concentration camps with 'jungle gym' and 'sport'
Flickr is facing a user revolt after a new auto-tagging system labelled images of black people with tags such as "ape" and "animal" as well as tagging pictures of concentration camps with "sport" or "jungle gym".
The system, which was introduced in early May, uses what Flickr describes as "advanced image recognition technology" to automatically categorise photos into a number of broad groups.
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