Flickr Fixing ‘Racist’ Auto-Tagging Feature After Black Man Mislabeled ‘Ape’

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Flickr Fixing ‘Racist’ Auto-Tagging Feature After Black Man Mislabeled ‘Ape’

Flickr has caused some unexpected controversy with the auto-tagging feature it launched earlier this month. The “advanced image recognition” system has

via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/05/20/flickr-fixing-racist-auto-tagging-feature-after-black-man-mislabeled-ape/

In addition to Deshon’s own tags of the photo, Flickr added a number of auto-tags that originally included “ape” and “animal.”