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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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[–] [S] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I thought they would have trained it on mugshots. Either way, it should never be used to make direct arrests. I feel like it's best use would be something like an anonymous tip line that leads to investigation.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Using mugshots to train AI without consent feels illegal. Plus, it wouldn't even make a very good training set, as the AI would only be able to identify perfectly straight images shot in ideal lighting conditions.

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