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> three leading facial recognition systems were far more likely to misidentify women and people of color than white men. I wonder why is this considered a bad
by Viliam1234 6y ago
> three leading facial recognition systems were far more likely to misidentify women and people of color than white men.
I wonder why is this considered a bad thing.
I mean, if you oppose video surveillance, you should be happy if the leading spying systems are bad at identifying you.
- _iyig 6y agoFalse positives could lead to wrongful arrests.
- pr0zac 6y agoEven if you take that as an axiom there is still the issue of results being biased (in the academic sense of deviation of expected value from a statistical estimate) related to gender and race. The ethical discussion of the impact of that bias doesn't really change beyond which side of the bias you consider receiving negative vs positive outcomes.