Technology is wonderful, but the applications can be scary. New software can tell gay people from straight with much higher accuracy than humans. Computers are just good at detecting patterns and machine learning has really taken off in recent years. You can take a vast set of data, e.g. from dating sites, and the computer analyses it for patterns.
What the computer does not do is to judge people. That is a human trait and it's unfortunate that people are judged on their personal preferences. Whether that is genetic or by some other cause is not so important. There are fears this technology could be used to 'out' people who have chosen not to go public and to discriminate in various situations. It's not 100% accurate, so there would be false positives that could cause issues.
People should be judged on how they act towards others and not by anything they happen to be born with.
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