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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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[–] nxfsi@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reminder that Google still hasn't actually fixed the issue in which their image recognition algorithm mislabels black people as gorillas

[–] Izzgo@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Even worse, Google seems to think they fixed it in 2018. Google ‘fixed’ its racist algorithm by removing gorillas from its image-labeling tech

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Google is a problem