Fury as AI app gives racist labels and calls people a 'rape suspect'

A viral app which claims to'honestly' classify selfies using its in-built artificial intelligence has been spewing out vile and racist labels. Furious users say their pictures have been slapped with offensive and racist terms such as'negro', 'slant eye' and'rape suspect' by the app which was developed at Princeton University. Developers say causing offence was exactly the intention and it was intended to be deliberately provocative to draw attention to the in-built prejudice and discrimination in many forms of machine learning. But many users are still furious that their images have played a seemingly unwitting part in the controversial project. One MailOnline staffer who tried the app was dubbed a'rape suspect' when he uploaded his selfie.