600k Images Removed from ImageNet After Art Project Exposes Racist Bias

Re:600k Images Removed from ImageNet After Art Project Expos... by Erlich_Bachman on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @02:28AM (#21057127)

I haven't seen a single use case, or a proposition, to use AI classification on such a raw task as classifying whether someone is a criminal or not just by the photo. Any sane person would see that such an endeavor would by itself present so many problems in a society, way longer before we even get to the racist bias of a statistical distribution. So what is the danger really?

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Re:600k Images Removed from ImageNet After Art Project Expos... by Enginerrrd on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @11:31AM (#21071722)

Yeah I didn't pull that out of a hat. The specifics were arbitrary, but I chose that as a real example of systems that people already tried building. THAT'S why understanding Bayesian statistics and underlying distributions is super important to consider when you might inadvertently create biased systems.

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Re:600k Images Removed from ImageNet After Art Project Expos... by skinner_ on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @12:38PM (#21062003)

Proposition? Does this count as a proposition?:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2114900-concerns-as-fac...

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Re:600k Images Removed from ImageNet After Art Project Expos... by Erlich_Bachman on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @01:29PM (#21062543)

Ok yes well that one is absolutely crazy and scary. Regardless of whether there are race biases in the database.

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