Cast your mind back to 2016 and you might recall Quick, Draw! — an AI experiment from Google that guessed what users were doodling. It was basically AI Pictionary, with Google later releasing the millions of sketches it collected as an open-source dataset.
But there was one doodle that Google’s AI never recognized and that never appeared in its data: the humble penis.
It sounds childish, but it’s sort of a big omission. The penis is perhaps the most significant and durable doodle of all time. It’s a sigil that’s been scrawled on surfaces for thousands of years — everywhere from Roman walls to medieval manuscripts — and variously signifies good luck, virility, or just “I’m a man and I was here.”
To rectify Google’s mistake, the Mozilla…
Designers built an AI penis detector to protest Google’s prudish doodles
Source: New feed
