Building the celeb-dating pipeline: co-starring ≠ dating, so a separate romance classifier was needed
tonygwu · x · 2026-09-17
In a thread follow-up, tonygwu explains the first version of his celebrity-dating pipeline naively treated co-starring as dating — pairing Idris Elba (a tiger) with Scarlett Johansson (a snake) in The Jungle Book. He had to build a separate classifier to detect whether two characters are actually romantically paired.
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