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In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black (www.businessinsider.com)

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Was this AI trained on an unbalanced data set? (Only black folks?) Or has it only been used to identify photos of black people? I have so many questions: some technical, some on media sensationalism

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[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

it’s the technology itself that’s lacking.

the technology is designed by people, people who didn't consider those with dark skin and so designed a technology that is lacking.
Lets not act as if technology just springs spontaneously in to being.