Facial Recognition Is Accurate, If You’re a White Guy

Re:Facial Recognition Is Accurate, If You’re a White Guy by vgf on Saturday February 10, 2018 @09:00AM (#16347288)

From a privacy perspective I would personally see it as a positive if my skin color made it harder for me to be accurately detected by facial recognition algorithms. This seems like severely misplaced outrage. Be careful for what you wish for..

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Re:Facial Recognition Is Accurate, If You’re a White Guy by antoineMoPa on Saturday February 10, 2018 @10:00AM (#16347548)

Ok for the privacy perspective, but from the employment perspective, this highlights a problem:

    Part of the challenge, scientists say, is that there is so little diversity within the A.I. community.

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Re:Facial Recognition Is Accurate, If You’re a White Guy by vgf on Saturday February 10, 2018 @10:08AM (#16347583)

That seems like the... wrong issue to highlight. In this case it's all about the skin color of the people pictured in the data sets. E.g. the potential "victims" when this stuff gets inevitably gets misused. Not about the skin color of the developers.

I don't think anyone in the "AI community" is against having better data sets.

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