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.

A viral app which classifies selfies using its in-built artificial intelligence has been spewing out vile and racist labels and enraging users. Many took to social media to condemn the racist and offensive software but makers of the app, at Princeton University, say causing offence was exactly the intention. It was intended to be deliberately provocative to draw attention to the in-built prejudice and discrimination in many forms of machine learning. However, many users, it seems, didn't fully get the idea of the art project and were outraged at what their images were labelled as. One MailOnline staffer who tried the app was grotesquely dubbed a'rape suspect' from an innocuous picture.

You can now see what you look like through the eyes of an AI. ImageNet Roulette was trained with millions of images and uses a neural network to classify pictures of people, with some'dubious and cruel' results. The technology was developed to show the importance of choosing the correct data when training a machine learning system, as it may learn how to be bias. The AI was trained using ImageNet, which is a massive 14 million image data system created in 2009. ImageNet Roulette uses a neural network to classify pictures (such as this one of Kim Kardashian West) of people with some'dubious and cruel' results.