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

submitted 1 year ago by lntl@lemmy.ml to c/science@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I think it is come systematic racism. AI didn't arrest this person, police officers did. They did no further investigation before making the arrest because they didn't have to: the person has black skin. Case closed.