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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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[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago

haha this is reminding me of an episode of Better off Ted, where they replaced all sensors with optical based ones that did not recognize black people. Their solution was to hire white guys to follow them around to open doors and turn on lights for them

[-] nieceandtows@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

That’s hilarious

[-] SevenSwell@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

That show was so underrated. Pity it ended so quickly.

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