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In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black (www.businessinsider.com)
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Was this AI trained on an unbalanced data set? (Only black folks?) Or has it only been used to identify photos of black people? I have so many questions: some technical, some on media sensationalism

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[-] Boggy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

So the AI is racist.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 6 points 2 years ago

AI can't be racist. It has bad training.

[-] Boggy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I mean that just means the AI has a racist creator. Still possible.

[-] lntl@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

That's like saying people can't be rascist, they have bad training.

MS's Tay chatbot was demonstrably rascist FWIW

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 2 years ago

No, it's not the same. Unless you think AI and people are the same thing.

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

The world of information the AI was trained on is racist, making the AI another way to perpetuate systemic racism, yes.

[-] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

An algorithm cannot be racist, its training data is the issue

[-] lntl@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Sort of yeah. It's like a mirror, it reflects what its presented.

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