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Every reported mistaken arrest using facial recognition, person has been Black (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] exohuman@programming.dev 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is so predictable. Me and many others predicted this would happen years ago. They didn’t train it on black faces well enough.

[–] irdc@derp.foo 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It doesn’t help that photography historically had (and still has?) a problem with dark skin.

The lesson that technology isn’t neutral by definition is one that we would do well to heed with all this machine learning going on.