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…
P03 LockeDiscrimination is the wrong word. Technology has no morals or sense of justice. It is bias in the data that developers should have accounted for.
This seems shortsighted. You are basically asking people to police their own biases. That’s a tall ask for something no one can claim immunity from.
I am asking a group of scientists who should be very well-versed in statistics and weights, you know, one of the biggest components in a machine learning model, to account for how biased their data is when engineering their model.
It’s really not a hard ask.
So in other words technology is just as biased as the people who designed it