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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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[–] fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@nieceandtows But we know that there is systemic racism in the police. There *is* vinegar in it.

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Again, I'm not disagreeing on systemic racism in the police at all. That is a big issue that needs to be solved. Just saying that this doesn't have to be related to it, because the technology itself has some issues like this. The vinegar is in the food, yes, but lemon is naturally sour. Even if there is no vinegar, it's gonna be sour. Attributing everything to vinegar wouldn't make food better. It would just make it difficult to identify issues with individual ingredients.

[–] gruff@stroud.social 1 points 2 years ago

@fishidwardrobe As far as the UK is concerned (re facial recognition) I recall the latest study has found false positives disproportionately higher for Black people and statistically significant.

The UK Police thought this acceptable and have continued the roll out of this tech. A judgement call that bakes a little bit more systemic racism into UK Policing with little to no accountability.

https://science.police.uk/site/assets/files/3396/frt-equitability-study_mar2023.pdf

PS. I'm not academically qualified to comment on the paper, but take an interest in these things.

@nieceandtows