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The model performed worse with women, telling gay and straight apart with 71 per cent accuracy after looking at one photo, and 83 per cent accuracy after five. When shown five photos of each man, it correctly selected the man's sexuality 91 per cent of the time. The system was tested by showing it a picture of two men, one gay and one straight. Once the patterns associated with homosexuality were learnt, the system was shown faces it had not been shown before. It then logged which ones were more likely to appear in gay people than straight people. Removing images which were not clear enough, they were left with even numbers of 35,326 pictures of 14,776 people, gay and straight, male and female.ĭigitally scanning contours of the face, cheekbones, nose and chin the computer made hosts of measurements of the ratios between the different facial features. The users had all declared their sexuality on their profiles.
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To 'train' their computer, the researchers downloaded 130,741 different images of 36,630 individual men's faces, and 170,360 images of 38,593 women from a US dating website.