In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black::Facial recognition software has always had trouble telling Black people apart, yet police departments are still using it.

  • @Obsession
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    2211 months ago

    Isn’t face recognition just going to be inherently rly less reliable on darker skinned people? Their features would certainly have less contrast on darker skin, no?

    • @[email protected]
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      411 months ago

      Why not expose pictures longer to get better features of darker skinned people and less accurate of lighter skinned people, leading to more false arrests of lighter skinned people?

      • @[email protected]
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        11 months ago

        And remove the convenient excuse to harass black people? These are cops we’re talking about.

    • @[email protected]
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      411 months ago

      Doesn’t the fact that a technology is fundamentally discriminatory mean we should question the use of that technology? Not just shrug our shoulders and say too bad?

      • Throwaway
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        111 months ago

        Shouldn’t use it at all, but the tech isn’t intentionally malicious, just a fact of the tech.

          • Throwaway
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            111 months ago

            Hell of a lot easier when its a white dude on a dark background than a black dude on a dark background. The technology is just not being used in the way it should be.