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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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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

AI can't be racist. It has bad training.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I mean that just means the AI has a racist creator. Still possible.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

That's like saying people can't be rascist, they have bad training.

MS's Tay chatbot was demonstrably rascist FWIW

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

No, it's not the same. Unless you think AI and people are the same thing.

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