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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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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Parent commentor is being downvoted... but with a camera tuned for outdoor visibility I can see why it's difficult to detect features on a person with darker skin...

Similar how it's so hard to take good pictures of this little guy:

black cat in cardboard box