News outlets mischaracterized Google’s fix for its gorilla-labeling error

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• XREF: connects to: News headlines mischaracterized Google’s fix to its image labeling error; Google claimed to have ‘fixed’ the issue by simply removing the auto-tag term ‘Gorilla’ — Google news: ‘Gorilla’ word banned from company’s racist photo app

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• Eight years on, Google Photos hasn’t fixed anything, it just blocked gorilla recognition entirely (similarity 0.87)
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