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After 9 months, the New Orleans Police Department’s use of facial recognition has resulted in zero arrests and multiple false positives (lailluminator.com)

submitted 1 year ago by ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] slumberlust@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This seems shortsighted. You are basically asking people to police their own biases. That's a tall ask for something no one can claim immunity from.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am asking a group of scientists who should be very well-versed in statistics and weights, you know, one of the biggest components in a machine learning model, to account for how biased their data is when engineering their model.

It's really not a hard ask.

[–] Cortell@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

So in other words technology is just as biased as the people who designed it