See gaydar on Wiktionary
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"text": "The research, which went viral this week, used a sample of online dating photos, limited only to white users, to demonstrate that an algorithm could correctly distinguish between gay and straight men 81% of the time and 74% for women, suggesting machines can potentially have much better \"gaydar\" than humans.",
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"ref": "2024 February 25, Queerious, “The Deadname Meme”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-09-02:",
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"word": "gaydar"
}
Download raw JSONL data for gaydar meaning in All languages combined (15.8kB)
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: LGBTQ, humorous",
"path": [
"gaydar"
],
"section": "Portuguese",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "gaydar",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: LGBTQ, humorous",
"path": [
"gaydar"
],
"section": "Portuguese",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "gaydar",
"trace": ""
}
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