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What is he referring to when he mentions "racial profiling" in the context of facial recognition? Is it just a disparity in training data?
by CivBase 6y ago
What is he referring to when he mentions "racial profiling" in the context of facial recognition? Is it just a disparity in training data?
- kube-system 6y agoMaybe it's in reference to the concern that flawed facial recognition tech can confirm the inherent biases of the person relying on the data?
- hackermang 6y agoIt is hard to get a balanced training set when certain groups commit a disproportionate amount of crimes.
- casefields 6y agoHasn't there been a bunch of goof ups with it having trouble with black faces? https://www.wired.com/story/best-algorithms-struggle-recognize-black-faces-equally/ https://www.wired.com/story/best-algorithms-struggle-recogni... Google Photos tagged blacks as gorillas: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mzhang/2015/07/01/google-photos-tags-two-african-americans-as-gorillas-through-facial-recognition-software/#3c90a334713d https://www.forbes.com/sites/mzhang/2015/07/01/google-photos... 3 years later they still hadn't solved it: https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/12/16882408/google-racist-gorillas-photo-recognition-algorithm-ai https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/12/16882408/google-racist-go...