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Could this be down to the people training the algorithm being predominantly middle class white people? It's a pretty well known phenomenon that people are bad

• rcar 8y ago
  Racial minorities are gong to be greatly overrepresented in a collection of mugshots, so it's almost certainly just the case that it's easier to make mistakes in that direction. If the algorithm is, say, 99.99% accurate on faces that are the same race, gender, and roughly age, and there's 100 faces in there that match those, it'll correctly say no match .9999^100 = 99% of the time. If there's 5000, it's only going to find no match .9999^5000 = 60% of the time.
• pandasun 8y ago
  >middle class ? That doesn't add up to the rest of your comment.