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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 1 year ago by lntl@lemmy.ml 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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[–] Boggy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

So the AI is racist.

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[–] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

An algorithm cannot be racist, its training data is the issue

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