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AI Facial Recognition Is Denying Food To Pregnant Women Across India (www.boomlive.in)
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India’s 50-year-old welfare programme now uses AI to decide who gets food. Across Anganwadi centres, pregnant women and new mothers must pass a facial recognition scan before receiving rations.

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[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 31 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Article: omg AI bad

Also Article: fuck illustrators, let's use AI slop for the image.

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