Google Photos identified two black people as 'gorillas'

Google Photos uses sophisticated facial-recognition software to identify not only individuals, but also specific categories of objects and photo types, like food, cats and skylines

Image recognition programs are far from perfect, however; they sometimes gets things comically wrong, and sometimes offensively so — as one Twitter user recently found out.

Browsing his Google Photos app, Brooklyn resident Jacky Alciné noticed that photos of him and a friend, both of whom are black, were tagged under the label "Gorillas." He shared a screencap of the racist label on Twitter, which was spotted by Slate. Read more...