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Yeah, that’s terrifying. It’s the same reasoning as, “Of course more Black people are convicted of crimes — we arrest more of them!”
by sonofhans 3y ago
Yeah, that’s terrifying. It’s the same reasoning as, “Of course more Black people are convicted of crimes — we arrest more of them!”
- wuiheerfoj 3y agoBut presumably the AI is just identifying faces, not judging who is and is not a criminal
- vkou 3y agoIf the training set is biased, the AI becomes biased. GIGO.
- Tozen 3y agoWhen this software is being sold to these departments, it's amazing that people in the chain don't seem to be talking enough about the training set used or performance on certain populations. If you are going to arrest or build a case on facial recognition, you would think that they would be prepared to defend its accuracy against a broad range of demographics. Embarrassing failures and mistaken arrests, hurts their program, not to mention the money the city losses in lawsuits.
- vkou 3y agoThe answer to this conundrum might be that neither the departments nor the vendors are particularly interested in avoiding bias. Paying lip service is generally sufficient.
- memefrog 3y ago[flagged]
- stormfather 3y agoIf we can't bring up the elephant in the room how are we ever going to solve this issue?