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Genderify’s AI to Predict a Person’s Gender Revealed by Free API Users to Exhibit Bias
A company's AI predicting a person's gender based on their name, email address, or username was reported by its users to show biased and inaccurate results.
- Date it happened
- 2020-07-28
- Organisation involved
- Genderify
- Product, system or model
- Genderify was designed to "identify a person's gender by analyzing their name, username or email address" by using "data based on sources such as governmental and social network information."
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