Red and Blue make Purple

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jodylondon

Ethics aside, at least that Stanford study about detecting sexual orientation from selfies didn’t fail to give us some horrifying face renderings in an attempt to explain results. It’s tradition!

squareallworthy

Is it just me, or do both the gay faces give the impression that they are wearing eyeglasses?

wirehead-wannabe

Does anyone else read this primarily as “red tribe vs blue tribe faces”? I feel like the learning algorithm might just be picking up on that as a predictor of self-identification. Also age, because young people are more likely to self-identify as gay.

genderfight

gays have glasses because sin has blinded them.

But yeah, the thing that stuck out to me most was absolutely age.

jodylondon

The notes on this have mentioned age a number of times, but age is actually something they controlled for in this study (full text linked in the original post). On page 12, they describe the data set that they used. For men, then median age was 33 with 50% of all pictures of men between 30 and 36 (for both heterosexual and homosexual men). For women, it was a median of 29 years old and 50% of all pictures of women between 25 and 34 (again, both heterosexual and homosexual). So for all intents and purposes, looking young is gay culture.

jodylondon

On top of all this, the results of this study aren’t that impressive. After using a number of strategies to increase their accuracy (including giving the algorithm 5 different photos of a person), they were right 91% of the time.

That number might seem impressive at first, but even the highest estimates show that the general population is less than 7% homosexual or bisexual. That means that if I guess that every single person is straight, I’m going to be right 93% of the time, which is better than this dumb robot.

How to commission

If you’re interested contact me by email: leecheemarie@gmail.com

Your email should have the following:
1. Your name/social media name
2. Commission details (eg. commission type, character/person, pose, etc). Please be clear and specific.
3. Attachments of any references you think would help.

I will most likely reply to you within a day or two. From there, we can discuss pricing and any other commission details

Terms of Service

Payments via Paypal only

Prices are in CAD

Commissions must be paid in full upfront before I start drawing

These commissions will not be allowed for mass production or commercial use.

Additional Info

+ $15 for each additional character

+ $10 for additional characters in Other Styles

+ $10 for detailed backgrounds

No charge for simple backgrounds (solid colours/gradients/patterns/drop shadow)

NOTE: For this round of commissions I don’t have a set date for them to be finished. I’m currently back in school so my schedule is going to be a bit busier than usual. I will try my best to get commissions done within a reasonable amount of time (so its not gonna take a year or something crazy like that)

I will NOT draw

Comics

Furries

Mecha

Heavy Gore

NSFW/abuse/incest… I think you get it lol

I WILL draw

Fanart

Real people (in my art style)

Original characters

Ships

Basically anything as long as it’s not under things I won’t draw