> Same problem with facial recognition which simply didn't work on anyone with dark skin. That's an urban legend btw. The issue was actually that the person fo

> Same problem with facial recognition which simply didn't work on anyone with dark skin. That's an urban legend btw. The issue was actually that the person for whom it failed had the camera pointed straight up with a bright light behind him, so the image was totally washed out and lacked saturation. The software failed in the same way if you had a dark background and then shone a bright light into a white person's face. The algorithm needs contrast to work. Also, people on this forum really should know better than insinuate that a program working imperfectly is caused by racism. As if programmers sit around finding ways to troll black people by deliberately making face recognition not work. Even the idea of it is absurd. When people make such insinuations, it reinforces the widely held belief that accusations of racism are invariably bullshit, which can lead to a boy-crying-wolf problem.