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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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[–] gramathy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Also makes me wonder if our defined digital color spaces being bad at representing darker shades contributes as well.