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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 to c/science@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] 20 points 3 years ago (4 children)

It's amazing how hard some people will work to deny that demonstrable biases influenced by the society we live in, exist in and massively impact science and technology, as if they are above such things, while literally demonstrating their own biases.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I always wonder if the people that are so hard against systemic/structural racism are really thinking that they are being oppressed if someone tries to address that or if they are fully aware of the advantages they have just because they are born with the "right" skincolor in the right neighbourhoods and are against it for purely egoistic reasons because they don't want to lose that advantage

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago

    Both and/or either?
    It's a complex and deep topic that is also inextricably intertwined with capitalism and other oppressive systems, so giving an in depth answer would take more brain power than I currently have available lol (I have tried, but I keep going off on tangents and getting tangled up in explanations), but I think this quote is quite relevant, so I might leave it at that:

    "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." -Lyndon B. Johnson

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago

    demonstrable biases influenced by the society we live in, exist in and massively impact science and technology,

    And then science and technology fortifies biases of society, it's a feedback loop

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