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Genderify’s AI to Predict a Person’s Gender Revealed by Free API Users to Exhibit Bias

AI Incident Database · article · Jul 29, 2020 · UTC

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.

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incident-report
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reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2020-07-28T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

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