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Part of the problem with facial recognition is it is potentially inaccurate, especially if you are not a white male. So you run the risk of having large number
by mattlondon 7y ago
Part of the problem with facial recognition is it is potentially inaccurate, especially if you are not a white male.
So you run the risk of having large numbers of innocent people being incorrectly tagged as persona non grata - be that with the police, in-store detectives, hotels, potential employers etc.
Having a computer say "this person is bad/unwelcome/a shoplifter/bad credit/a sex offender/etc" is powerful, and difficult for laymen to counteract. Computer says no - sorry, it's policy, nothing I can do.
And you can do this at huge scale for pennies and in the blink of an eye with a computer. You can't do that with a human manually/semi-manually doing it.
- anon_d 7y agowhite male white male white male
- crooked-v 7y ago> Asian and African American people were up to 100 times more likely to be misidentified than white men, depending on the particular algorithm and type of search. Native Americans had the highest false-positive rate of all ethnicities, according to the study, which found that systems varied widely in their accuracy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/19/federal-study-confirms-racial-bias-many-facial-recognition-systems-casts-doubt-their-expanding-use/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/19/federal...
- anon_d 7y agoIt doesn't matter. "White male" is a slur now.