In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black::Facial recognition software has always had trouble telling Black people apart, yet police departments are still using it.
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to be fair that happened a lot before AI existed
This isn’t new. It’s been a known problem for a long time, because facial recognition software is trained using white people. So it gets really really good at differentiating between white people. But with black people as a tiny fraction of the sample data, it basically just learns to differentiate them with broad strokes. It’s good at telling them apart from white people, but not much else.
It’s not just a training issue. Lighter (color) tones reflect. Dark tones absorb. There have been lots of issues with cameras or even just sensors having issues with people having dark skin tones because the lower reflectivity/contrast of dark tones. 3D scanners - even current models - have similar issues with objects having black parts for similar reasons. Training on more models can help, but there’s still an overall technical difficulty to overcome as well (which is also a good reason that using facial recognition in this manner is just bullshit, period).
I’m interested what dataset they’re using because simply adding more black people to the training set seems like a pretty straightforward fix.
It seems like past mugshots would be an ideal part of the training set. Are they not using those?
Personally, I’m leaning towards “It’s not the image recognition program that’s the problem here.”
Who could possibly ever have foreseen that.
Fuck the police!
If Black Then arrest
If white, politely ask
So it’s acting like real cops and lying about black people “fitting the description.”
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