[lisasays]

Racism (colloquially) comes from bad people's intentions.

Racism can also be measured by its effect, regardless of intent.

What would be racist from this outcome is if it kept doing this and no one did anything.

After 8 years, that's seems to be precisely what's happening.

[xeromal]

Isn't the point of the article that it just refuses to recognize gorillas outright? That prevents exactly what you're talking about. And I made that point in my post. It is hurtful so Google prevent google photos from classifying anything as a Gorilla is a good bandaid. Some things are just too risky to solve for little gain.