Making a broad claim about the usual accuracy of deep nets is extremely misleading; the bounding factor is the task, not the model. You don't even have to take

Making a broad claim about the usual accuracy of deep nets is extremely misleading; the bounding factor is the task, not the model. You don't even have to take issue with the modeling or any other part of the methodology to debunk this study; it's the interpretation that is plainly ridiculous. As you said, these are pictures from a dating site; awfully likely that people choose to present themselves differently based on who they want to attract. Also no appropriate statistical test applied to differences in faces picked up by the model. See this for more: http://callingbullshit.org/case_studies/case_study_ml_sexual_orientation.html http://callingbullshit.org/case_studies/case_study_ml_sexual...