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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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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

I don't know that facial recognition should be illegal for cops to use (though I don't want them using it, overall), but there should be guardrails in place that prevent them from using it as anything more than "let's look into this person further."

Put differently, a report of a certain model car of a certain color can tip them off to investigate someone driving such a car. It isn't a reason to arrest that person.