G's AI removes gender from image labels

[tangor]

Google AI will no longer use gender labels like 'woman' or 'man' on images of people to avoid bias

[businessinsider.com...]

Should we, as webmasters, follow suit?

Will there be any benefit in renaming "gendered" image filenames for seo purposes?

[iamlost]

As ‘AI’, so-called, can’t reliably distinguish wolves that aren’t shown in snow nor dark skinned humans from gorillas etc et al ad nauseum I tend to the opinion that this is less a ‘pc’ decision as obfuscating an inability to reliably determine male from female humans...
:)

[brotherhood of LAN]

At the risk of over generalising a viewpoint, I'd rather we celebrate our differences than try make everything the same. If I'm describing someone, height, skin colour, ethnicity, colour of hair, gender ... all seem pretty reasonable attributes for describing.

Maybe a lawyer had their say in case someone did get "mis-tagged"

[tangor]

As noted above, my concern is for serp ranking ... will images with gendered filename be deprecated? Diminished?

Forget the PC stuff ... this is a big deal in g taking a step to erase ALL gender from AI (which includes their serps).

Will "female-example-example.jpg" no longer rank? "example-male-example.svg"?

Will ecommerce have to change everything from a-z?

Or is this really an admission that the best g's AI can do is say "this is a human" and "this is not a human"?

Perhaps the AI ain't that smart?

Makes me very curious!

[tangor]

Then again, g introduced the term "bias", so there's something else going on as well.

Sigh...