ShittyBeatlesFCPresAfter 9 months, the New Orleans Police Department’s use of facial recognition has resulted in zero arrests and multiple false positives
14 out of 15 requests were of black people. Facial recognition is notoriously bad with darker skin tones.
Racial Discrimination in Face Recognition Technology …harvard.edu/…/racial-discrimination-in-face-reco…
Who remembers the HP computer and was unable to identify black people? One of my favorite “oooph, that’s not a good look” tech fails of all time. At least the people in that video were having a good laugh about it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4DT3tQqgRM
Holy hell, that was 13 years ago.
HP computers are racist
More recently, there was also Google Photos mistaking a photo of a black couple as “gorillas”, back in 2015.
www.bbc.com/news/technology-33347866
On a funnier note, there was also the AI tool turning a pixelated photo of Barack Obama into that of a white man.
Flying SquidHaha. He looks like Mike Nelson.