Google has removed the 'gorilla' tag from its new Photos app, after it was found to be misidentifying images of black people. By Sophie Curtis 30 June 2015 • 11:20pm .

Within a few hours, the tag was removed and Zunger continued to tweet about how the Google Photos team is working to fix larger issues within the app. @jackyalcine Thank you for telling us so quickly!

'Gorillas': Google Photos uses racist tag on black friends, provoking backlash. By Tim Biggs. Updated July 2, 2015 — 8.42am first published at 6.37am. Save.

Google came under fire this week after its new Photos app categorized photos in one of the most racist ways possible. On June 28th, computer programmer Jacky Alciné found that the feature kept ...

GOOGLE has fixed a problem with its Photos app that saw black people tagged as “gorillas” – by simply removing gorillas from the rogue algorithm altogether. The ham-fisted solution mean… ...

In 2015, Google drew criticism when its Photos image recognition system mislabeled a black woman as a gorilla—but two years on, the problem still isn’t properly fixed. Instead, Google has ...

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