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FaceApp Predicted Different Genders for Similar User Photos with Slight Variations
FaceApp’s algorithm was reported by a user to have predicted different genders for two mostly identical facial photos with only a slight difference in eyebrow thickness.
- Date it happened
- 2020-12-24
- Organisation involved
- FaceApp
- Product, system or model
- FaceApp is a photo editing app that generates realistic transformations of human faces based on user uploaded photos.
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