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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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[–] Boggy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So the AI is racist.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

AI can't be racist. It has bad training.

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

I mean that just means the AI has a racist creator. Still possible.

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's like saying people can't be rascist, they have bad training.

MS's Tay chatbot was demonstrably rascist FWIW

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago

No, it's not the same. Unless you think AI and people are the same thing.

[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

The world of information the AI was trained on is racist, making the AI another way to perpetuate systemic racism, yes.

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Sort of yeah. It's like a mirror, it reflects what its presented.

[–] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

An algorithm cannot be racist, its training data is the issue