Algorithms · December 2022Gaffe level: Blunder
The Lensa AI Avatar App Kept Undressing Women Without Consent
A Tech Review journalist tested the viral Lensa app and got sexualized nudes of herself while her male colleagues got astronaut portraits. The training data had some strong opinions about gender.
Source: MIT Technology Review
An AI Read Heart Disease From Face and Tongue Photos
Researchers in China fused tongue and facial photographs through a dual-branch deep learning model and screened for coronary heart disease without a single blood test, reaching an AUC of 0.9992 on an independent test set. Published in Scientific Reports, it points to a low-cost, non-invasive screening tool that needs only a camera.
Source: Scientific Reports