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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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[–] isthismanas_droid@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah you're right! Programmers should train their models for all skin types . That's also something that should be added in many many working environments tbh.