PHOTO: Google Calls Black People ‘Gorillas’, Appologizes

Google’s automatic photos recognition software mislabelled photographs of two black friends as gorillas.

Jacky Alcine was looking through his pictures on mobile telephone when he suddenly noticed that he and his a female friend had been grouped into an album titled ‘Gorillas’. Jacky immediately took to his Twitter to express his anger and dissapointment with the application and its creators.

And it’s only photos I have with her it’s doing this with (results truncated b/c personal): pic.twitter.com/h7MTXd3wgo

— diri noir avec banan (@jackyalcine) June 29, 2015

Google Photos, y’all fucked up. My friend’s not a gorilla. pic.twitter.com/SMkMCsNVX4

— diri noir avec banan (@jackyalcine) June 29, 2015

Fuck, the only thing under this tag is my friend and I being tagged as a gorilla. What the fuck? -__

— diri noir avec banan (@jackyalcine) June 29, 2015

 

Google official Yonatan Zunger, quickly apologised on Twitter, saying they are now working on fixing the problem and already turned off the ability for photographs to be grouped under the ‘gorilla’ term.

@jackyalcine Thank you for telling us so quickly! Sheesh. High on my list of bugs you *never* want to see happen. ::shudder::

— Yonatan Zunger (@yonatanzunger) June 29, 2015

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