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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 3 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black::Facial recognition software has always had trouble telling Black people apart, yet police departments are still using it.

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[–] 21 points 3 years ago (7 children)

Isn't face recognition just going to be inherently rly less reliable on darker skinned people? Their features would certainly have less contrast on darker skin, no?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Why not expose pictures longer to get better features of darker skinned people and less accurate of lighter skinned people, leading to more false arrests of lighter skinned people?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Doesn't the fact that a technology is fundamentally discriminatory mean we should question the use of that technology? Not just shrug our shoulders and say too bad?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Shouldn't use it at all, but the tech isn't intentionally malicious, just a fact of the tech.

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