▲ 506 ▼ 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 lntl@lemmy.ml to c/science@lemmy.ml 59 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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
[–] Boggy@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago (7 children) So the AI is racist. permalink fedilink source hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] rikudou@lemmings.world 5 points 3 years ago (3 children) AI can't be racist. It has bad training. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Boggy@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago I mean that just means the AI has a racist creator. Still possible. permalink fedilink source parent [–] lntl@lemmy.ml [S] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) That's like saying people can't be rascist, they have bad training. MS's Tay chatbot was demonstrably rascist FWIW permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 3 years ago No, it's not the same. Unless you think AI and people are the same thing. permalink fedilink source parent [–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago The world of information the AI was trained on is racist, making the AI another way to perpetuate systemic racism, yes. permalink fedilink source parent [–] lntl@lemmy.ml [S] 1 point 3 years ago Sort of yeah. It's like a mirror, it reflects what its presented. permalink fedilink source parent [–] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago An algorithm cannot be racist, its training data is the issue permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 5 points 3 years ago (3 children) AI can't be racist. It has bad training. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Boggy@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago I mean that just means the AI has a racist creator. Still possible. permalink fedilink source parent [–] lntl@lemmy.ml [S] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) That's like saying people can't be rascist, they have bad training. MS's Tay chatbot was demonstrably rascist FWIW permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 3 years ago No, it's not the same. Unless you think AI and people are the same thing. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Boggy@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago I mean that just means the AI has a racist creator. Still possible. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lntl@lemmy.ml [S] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) That's like saying people can't be rascist, they have bad training. MS's Tay chatbot was demonstrably rascist FWIW permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 3 years ago No, it's not the same. Unless you think AI and people are the same thing. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 3 years ago No, it's not the same. Unless you think AI and people are the same thing. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago The world of information the AI was trained on is racist, making the AI another way to perpetuate systemic racism, yes. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lntl@lemmy.ml [S] 1 point 3 years ago Sort of yeah. It's like a mirror, it reflects what its presented. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago An algorithm cannot be racist, its training data is the issue permalink fedilink source parent