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Springer Nature retracts nearly 40 publications that trained neural networks on dataset containing images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism (www.thetransmitter.org)
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[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

It also wouldn't work well because it's impossible to diagnose someone with Autism solely from their face. They'd have much better luck making a tool for something like Down syndrome, but even still it would be very fallible.

Autism is widely called "invisible" for a reason lol.