In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black

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• dbilitated@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  to be fair that happened a lot before AI existed

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• Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This isn’t new. It’s been a known problem for a long time, because facial recognition software is trained using white people. So it gets really really good at differentiating between white people. But with black people as a tiny fraction of the sample data, it basically just learns to differentiate them with broad strokes. It’s good at telling them apart from white people, but not much else.

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  • phx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not just a training issue. Lighter (color) tones reflect. Dark tones absorb. There have been lots of issues with cameras or even just sensors having issues with people having dark skin tones because the lower reflectivity/contrast of dark tones. 3D scanners - even current models - have similar issues with objects having black parts for similar reasons. Training on more models can help, but there’s still an overall technical difficulty to overcome as well.

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    • Shihali@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As a technological problem it could have a technological partial solution: the darker the skin, the higher the threshold to declare a match. This would also mean more false negatives (real matches not caught by the software) but not much to do about that.

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• Diplomjodler@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Who could possibly ever have foreseen that.

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• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So it’s acting like real cops and lying about black people “fitting the description.”

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• pyromaniac_donkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean it’s kinda they fault for being black

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