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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] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

12 people. we're talking about 12 people, so any conclusions are suspect. that being said, facial recognition struggling with black faces from insufficient data is an extremely common problem, so it'd be unsurprising

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's exactly my idea on media sensationalism. It's really not a large sample. Way more people have been arrested and imprisoned by the justice system without any AI involvement.