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Sounds like it's time for anti-racist movements to start pressuring the ML community to start introducing and using datasets which aren't biased towards white p
by Der_Einzige 6y ago
Sounds like it's time for anti-racist movements to start pressuring the ML community to start introducing and using datasets which aren't biased towards white people.
Though, things like black people being more poorly recognized by facial recognition can be a blessing in disguise depending on the circumstances
- leereeves 6y agoSounds dangerous. False recognition can lead police to suspect innocent people, and there are many ways that mere suspicion can lead to a conviction.
- ars 6y agoLet's say the training dataset has the same proportion of black people as their proportion of the population. That, by itself would be biased for the ML, since there are fewer images. But it's not an indication of bias by the people programming it. But this would imply you need huge data-sets for every minority, not matter how small a proportion of the population. It might instead be necessary to teach the model about race as a concept, so it can categorize images, and then process them correctly. But of course that leads to a different can of worms since you are explicitly making a "race aware" ML.