The selfie tool going viral for its weirdly specific captions is really designed to show how bigoted AI can be

A new viral tool that uses artificial intelligence to label people's selfies is demonstrating just how weird and biased AI can be. The ImageNet Roulette site was shared widely on Twitter on Monday, and was created by AI Now Institute cofounder Kate Crawford and artist Trevor Paglen. The pair are examining the dangers of using datasets with ingrained biases -- such as racial bias -- to train AI. ImageNet Roulette's AI was trained on ImageNet, a database compiled in 2009 of 14 million labelled images. ImageNet is one of the most important and comprehensive training datasets in the field of artificial intelligence, in part because it's free and available to anyone.