A New York based computer programmer was shocked when he spotted images of himself and a friend labelled in an album marked 'gorillas' by Google Photos automatic tagging service (as shown above). The software gathers images it thinks are similar into collections. Google has said it is 'appalled' and 'genuinely sorry' for the mistake and is now taking action to prevent similar errors happening again in the future.

imagine the nonsense

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and put them under airplanes to boot. . . . . . . .

That's what u get when Google decided to hand over 60% of commands to robots named googlebot instead of robots

That's what u get when Google decided to hand over 60% of commands to robots named googlebot instead of humans

Kessythegeek:
A New York based computer programmer was shocked when he spotted images of himself and a friend labelled in an album marked 'gorillas' by Google Photos automatic tagging service (as shown above). The software gathers images it thinks are similar into collections. Google has said it is 'appalled' and 'genuinely sorry' for the mistake and is now taking action to prevent similar errors happening again in the future.

imagine the nonsense

and none of the white couples could be mistakenly tagged gorrila!

Tolexander:
and none of the white couples could be mistakenly tagged gorrila!

they'll never be so blind

i ain't seeing no mhishtake here... This was intentional

Absolutely disgusting.

Kessythegeek:
A New York based computer programmer was shocked when he spotted images of himself and a friend labelled in an album marked 'gorillas' by Google Photos automatic tagging service (as shown above). The software gathers images it thinks are similar into collections. Google has said it is 'appalled' and 'genuinely sorry' for the mistake and is now taking action to prevent similar errors happening again in the future.

imagine the nonsense

cc : lalasticlala

So wrong and done on purpose

Should we be surprised though? I mean if Obama can be called a monkey by racists political groups and have his birth certificate questioned by weirdos like Donald trump then this incident shouldn't be a shocker

Dont blame the google App....
The girls posture and the way she contorted her face..... made her look like a ....

scholes0:
Dont blame the google App....
The girls posture and the way she contorted her face..... made her look like a ....

Actually it is the software. Don't blame the girl. Anyway, people make strange or funny faces all the time for pictures. Doesn't mean they're always tagged as animals by such software.

It has nothing to do with her posture or the way she contorted her face. Read other articles on the story, such as this, which gives a bit more detail:

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/gorillas-google-photos-uses-racist-tag-on-black-friends-provoking-backlash-20150701-gi31y6.html

From other articles I've read, this sort of thing has happened before with flickr and other sites.

I feel especially bad for the girl, now that the story has gone viral. Hope she somehow doesn't see that the story has spread, because this is the sort of thing that kills self esteem.

is something wrong with me for finding this very funny?