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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    2 年前

    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?

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      2 年前

      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?

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      2 年前

      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@lemm.ee
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        2 年前

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

        • charles@lemmy.world
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          Exposure is a dial, not a technology. People are choosing to use it this way.

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            2 年前

            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.