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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social

12/9/2025, 12:40:08 PM

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🙅‍♂️ Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications

｢ The papers attempted to train neural networks to distinguish between autistic and non-autistic children in a dataset containing photos of children’s faces. Retired engineer Gerald Piosenka created the dataset in 2019 by downloading photos of children from “websites devoted to the subject of autism,” according to a description of the dataset’s methods, and uploaded it to Kaggle ｣

https://www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/exclusive-springer-nature-retracts-removes-nearly-40-publications-that-trained-neural-networks-on-bonkers-dataset/

#autism #research #ai

A stack of papers topped by many paper shreddings against a red background.

Springer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publications

The dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability.

www.thetransmitter.org · The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives

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