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It does make some sense. Yes, technically, the bias is still there, but it's lower. Getting some accuracy on image detection isn't that difficult, but making it
by Mirioron 8y ago
It does make some sense. Yes, technically, the bias is still there, but it's lower. Getting some accuracy on image detection isn't that difficult, but making it more and more accurate is. Going from 50% accuracy to 51% is much easier than 98% to 99%.
Of course, with the error rates reported on certain groups a human making the final decision is not enough.
- Retric 8y agoThe problem is a human would at best reduce but not eliminate the bias. Let’s assume the photo was not a match for the database. Now a human doing the final step is essentially pick a random face from a biased sample. Worse, people are really bad about assuming whatever option they are considering to be far more likely than the base rate. Read up on an random obscure disease and suddenly you start thinking it’s a real risk. Sadly, police do the same thing with criminal suspects resulting in innocent people in prison.