by Yvette Carnell
Google has apologized after its photo application confused black people with gorillas.
Over the weekend programmer Jacky Alciné tweeted a screenshot of photos he’d uploaded in which the app had labeled Alcine and a friend, both African American, as “gorillas.”
“Google Photos, y’all f****d up. My friend’s not a gorilla.” Alcine tweeted. Another tweet read, “What kind of sample image data you collected that would result in this son?”
Google said it was “genuinely sorry” that the app classified the black friends as gorillas.
Google engineer Yonatan Zunger tweeted “this is 100% Not OK” in response to Alcine’s tweets. Zunger also promised Alcine that Google would fix the glitch.
The first fix tried was not successful so Zunger said the tag was removed and the company would be working on “long term” fixes for the issue.
