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I've worked with a lot of very good facial recognition technology. They all have demonstrated biases for white males. Even in the ideal scenario they are far to
by pseudosavant 3y ago
I've worked with a lot of very good facial recognition technology. They all have demonstrated biases for white males. Even in the ideal scenario they are far too inaccurate (<97%) to be used for identification, unless your false reject rate is extremely high (>30%). And if it is a less ideal scenario (elderly Latina, Asian woman, etc) you'll be lucky to get 80% accuracy without high false reject rates.
When it comes down to it, accurate facial recognition is at best 99% accurate. But being wrong 1 in 100 times is a horrible number for an authentication system. Anything else you ever use for authentication (password, iOS face scanning, PIN, etc) would be considered a complete joke if it only got to 99% accuracy.
- mjbeswick 3y agoPeople often cite bias in facial recognition systems, but I would argue that the average human is worse. Many people struggle to distinguish between people of ethnicities that are different from those they are most familiar with. The real problem with people interpret the data from those systems, assuming the confidence levels of matches are displayed as they should be.