How did FaceApp think people would react to their new change-your-race filters?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/08/09/how-did-faceapp-think-people-would-react-to-their-new-change-your-race-filters/ FaceApp, an app that uses neural networks to transform your selfies in some rather eerie ways, introduced filters on Wednesday that promised to change your racial appearance. The filters allowed users to upload a selfie and select an Asian, black, Caucasian or 'Indian' filter. Considering that in-app filters have long struggled to contend with "digital blackface," these new filters felt to many like a strange escalation of the racial insensitivity that's already plaguing face-swapping and transforming apps. After initially defending the filters, FaceApp chief executive Yaroslav Goncharov said in an emailed statement to The Washington Post late on Wednesday afternoon that the company would remove them in the "next few hours." - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lau...@vortex.com): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Google Issues Mailing List: https://vortex.com/google-issues Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 --- Impeach Trump --- _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list https://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad
