Looksharp

New App LooksMapping Rates NYC Restaurant Diners’ Attractiveness | Eater NY

"A 22-year-old, Riley Walz of San Francisco, compiled a numeric system and directed an A.I. model to scrape 2.8 million Google reviews; red means hot, blue means not, with a 10 signaling the restaurants with the most attractive diners. “The model is certainly biased. It’s certainly flawed. But we judge places by the people who go there [...] This website just puts reductive numbers on the superficial calculations we make every day,” reads the website. The project, in the New York Times’ framing, “is more cultural commentary than practical resource,” yet, “its premise speaks to a growing trend of diners prioritizing a restaurant’s clientele over its food or atmosphere.” It also reports that “racial biases in artificial intelligence are baked into the programming.”" - Melissa McCart